[pkg-go] Bug#890958: ITP: golang-github-stevvooe-ttrpc -- GRPC for low-memory environments

[Arnaud Rebillout]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Arnaud Rebillout <arnaud.rebillout at collabora.com>

* Package name    : golang-github-stevvooe-ttrpc
  Version         : 0.0~git20180205.d452837-1
  Upstream Author : Stephen Day
* URL             : https://github.com/stevvooe/ttrpc
* License         : Apache-2.0
  Programming Lang: Go
  Description     : GRPC for low-memory environments

 The existing grpc-go project requires a lot of memory overhead for
 importing packages and at runtime. While this is great for many services
 with low density requirements, this can be a problem when running a
 large number of services on a single machine or on a machine with a
 small amount of memory.
 .
 Using the same GRPC definitions, this project reduces the binary size
 and protocol overhead required. We do this by eliding the net/http,
 net/http2 and grpc package used by grpc replacing it with a lightweight
 framing protocol. The result are smaller binaries that use less resident
 memory with the same ease of use as GRPC.
 .
 Please note that while this project supports generating either end of
 the protocol, the generated service definitions will be incompatible
 with regular GRPC services, as they do not speak the same protocol.

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- why is this package useful/relevant?

It is a dependency of containerd.

- how do you plan to maintain it?

I plan to maintain it within the golang packaging team.