TerseDecompress incubation renewal

[jmertic]

TerseDecompress is up for incubation renewal, at it was approved 2019-01-01

[jmertic]

From previous TAC discussion, looking for insight from @egelerkl on status and progress towards graduation.

[jmertic]

TAC indicated that this should move to Emeritus if no action by the next TAC meeting.

[jmertic]

@PeterFandelAtRocket Will follow up

[jmertic]

TAC requests to find a new maintainer before next TAC meeting.

[jmertic]

@PeterFandelAtRocket is trying to connect with @egelerkl to determine status. @jmertic also has made a call for a new maintainer.

[jmertic]

The TAC has requested to hold a vote to move this project into Emeritus status. There has since been interest raised by @andrew890 in maintaining this code, so in light of that I'm working with the TAC to determine if the vote should be paused.

[hogstrom]

Ia there a list of proposed enhancements? Matt Hogstrom PGP key 0F143BC1

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[andrew890]

The change I want to make is to support binary variable length records, i.e. output binary data with RDWs. I have forked the repository and have been doing some work. So far all I have done is refactoring to try to understand the code.

Refactoring is difficult to coordinate with any other people's changes because it becomes difficult to merge changes. I was hoping to contact the owners to see whether they are interested in incorporating the changes, or whether I was best to go independently.

From my point of view I am happy to continue with the changes for my own purposes in my own repo. There could be value in merging it back into the original, although changes are always more complicated if they need to be generally available.

The main problem I anticipate is that I don't really understand the decompression code i.e. the core functionality. It is questionable whether I would be able to be of any assistance if there was a bug or modifications needed to that part of the code.