Hi Geode community! A while ago engineers from VMware started to improve the geode-redis module that has been in Geode for several years, but never had been completed. This involved adding more tests for existing functionality, as well as adding support for more commands.
VMware will not continue this investment in the geode-redis module. While the geode-redis module is in a much better place than two years ago there still is a lot of work left to make it a viable option for most of our users and the module is still in an experimental state. For the community this poses the question of what we want to do with the existing code. This work now has been started and stopped twice. All code comes with a maintenance burden which adds up<https://ben.balter.com/2016/07/21/removing-a-feature-is-a-feature/>. Dependencies might need to be updated; flaky tests fixed and it brings cognitive overhead for us and our users. Unless someone else in the community steps up to take on the task of maintaining the geode-redis module, I propose to remove the code from our develop branch and give everyone more bandwidth to use elsewhere. Thank you all in advance for your thoughts
