Time to mark this repository as deprecated/archived?

[olasd]

Which service(blob, file, queue) does this issue concern?

All services.

Which version of the SDK was used? Please provide the output of pip freeze.

N/A

What problem was encountered?

It looks like this repository is stale; all new changes have been introduced to the 12.x branch which has been integrated to the main https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python repository. No changes have been committed to this repository since December 2019.

Have you found a mitigation/solution?

Please add a prominent migration notice, and archive this repository, if it is indeed deprecated.

[bluca]

@xiafu-msft @zezha-msft could we please get an answer here? The situation right now is extremely confusing. The versions do not seem to be compatible with each other, and there are projects using both at the same time, like azure-cli.

[cdeil]

@lmazuel @chlowell - Maybe you can comment?

There's a good PR in this repo that doesn't get a response. #651

[xiafu-msft]

Hi @bluca and @cdeil

Thanks for reaching out!
Some customers are still using azure-storage-blob version<=2.1.0 so this repo is not deprecated yet, but it will be deprecated someday in the future.
Currently this repo only supports existing features.
For that PR #651 we can take a look and let it get merged to master, just we don't plan to release the change.

Let me know if you have any question/concern!

[lmazuel]

@cdeil the PR LGTM to me, independently of any deprecation discussion, so I approved it to give my two cents.
@xiafu-msft I think the feedback here is that the main Readme on the frontpage should be trimmed drastically, to make it more explicit that this repo is for maintenance only.