+1.

On Apr 2, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Doug Cutting wrote:

> I propose we add a new Hadoop subproject for Avro, a serialization  
> system.  My ambition is for Avro to replace both Hadoop's RPC and to  
> be used for most Hadoop data files, e.g., by Pig, Hive, etc.
>
> Initial committers would be Sharad Agarwal and me, both existing  
> Hadoop committers.  We are the sole authors of this software to date.
>
> The code is currently at:
>
> http://people.apache.org/~cutting/avro.git/
>
> To learn more:
>
> git clone http://people.apache.org/~cutting/avro.git/ avro
> cat avro/README.txt
>
> Comments?  Questions?
>
> Doug