From fa5367d20c994db73282594be0146ab221657943 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Johnson Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 14:20:52 -0600 Subject: README --- README.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 7d43a15..fc2a1e0 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -21,6 +21,25 @@ consistency and thread safety. Bolt is currently used in high-load production environments serving databases as large as 1TB. Many companies such as Shopify and Heroku use Bolt-backed services every day. +## A message from the author + +> The original goal of Bolt was to provide a simple pure Go key/value store and to +> not bloat the code with extraneous features. To that end, the project has been +> a success. However, this limited scope also means that the project is complete. +> +> Maintaining an open source database requires an immense amount of time and energy. +> Changes to the code can have unintended and sometimes catastrophic effects so +> even simple changes require hours and hours of careful testing and validation. +> +> Unfortunately I no longer have the time or energy to continue this work. Bolt is +> in a stable state and has years of successful production use. As such, I feel that +> leaving it in its current state is the most prudent course of action. +> +> If you are interested in using a more featureful version of Bolt, I suggest that +> you look at the CoreOS fork called [bbolt](https://github.com/coreos/bbolt). + +- Ben Johnson ([@benbjohnson](https://twitter.com/benbjohnson)) + ## Table of Contents - [Getting Started](#getting-started) -- cgit v1.2.3