[Netatalk-admins] Request for Comment: Deprecate CNID backends

[Daniel M. <da...@mi...>]

Dear Netatalk community,

The next step in the effort to reduce the tech debt and improve the maintainability of Netatalk:
Evaluating the utility of, and deprecating several little-used CNID backends.

At the time of writing, Netatalk has accumulated no less than 5 CNID backends.
They are:

- cdb
- dbd
- last
- mysql
- tdb

The dbd backend has been the default for over a decade.
Is there anyone in the crowd here who actively use any of the other four today?
We are considering deprecating all four, unless there is a concrete usecase that dbd cannot fulfill.

See this github ticket for additional context and discussion:
https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/issues/508

Thank you!

Daniel