Orphaning small library built on top of sun.misc.Unsafe

[Alex Kashchenko]

Hi,

Library link: https://github.com/alexkasko/unsafe-tools

I wrote this library some years ago for in-house data processing/storage
engine. It implements "safe" (guarded with asserts) wrapper for
sun.misc.Unsafe, basic data structures on top of it and binary search
and dual-pivot quicksort algorithms for that structures. It has unit
tests and javadocs for all the classes.

Unfortunately I am not working with sun.misc.Unsafe anymore and have no
free cycles for maintaining it. I want to orphan this library, if
someone will be interested in adopting it - please fork it on GitHub,
publish to Maven central and create an issue about this fork. I'll put
the appropriate message and link to new home into the readme.

PS: I understand that maintaining a library is not fun, but from
issues/pull requests I know there are some users of that lib; and anyone
who works with sun.misc.Unsafe is likely reading this list.

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-Alex

[Jacques Nadeau]

Hey Alex,

It looks like a number of useful tools. I'm working an a new Apache foundation project that this would be very relevant for. If you would be willing to donate this code to the foundation, I (we) could help take over stewardship. Of course, if someone wants to manage independently, that would be great as well.

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[Alex Kashchenko]

Hi Jacques,

On 01/17/2016 11:06 PM, Jacques Nadeau wrote:
> Hey Alex,
>
> It looks like a number of useful tools. I'm working an a new Apache
> foundation project that this would be very relevant for. If you would be
> willing to donate this code to the foundation, I (we) could help take over
> stewardship. Of course, if someone wants to manage independently, that
> would be great as well.

I will gladly donate this code to ASF, please let me know if any
contribution agreement will be required from me.

Thanks.

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-Alex

[James Northrup]

adding into https://github.com/0xCopy/bbcursive if applicable.

[Lorenzo Gallucci]

Any update on this? Has unsafe-tools a new home already?

Thank you

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-Alex

[Jacques Nadeau]

Sorry I disappeared.

Alex, it would be great if you could provide a software grant for your code [1]. 

Then we could add it to the recently formed Apache Arrow project [2][3]. I think we could find substantial value there and continue to maintain and improve it in that context.

Thanks,

Jacques

[1] https://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt

[2] http://arrow.apache.org/

[3] https://github.com/apache/arrow

[Jacques Nadeau]

Hey All,

Alex was kind enough to sign off on the software grant so we'll be incorporating the tools into Arrow. We're tracking here: [1]

thanks,
Jacques

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-114