[
  {
    "path": "README.md",
    "content": "We have retired the initial release of Snowflake and working on open sourcing\nthe next version based on\n[Twitter-server](https://twitter.github.io/twitter-server/), in a form that can\nrun anywhere without requiring Twitter's own infrastructure services.\n\nThe initial version, released in 2010, was based on Apache Thrift and it\npredated [Finagle](https://twitter.github.io/finagle/), our building\nblock for RPC services at Twitter.  The Snowflake we're using internally is a\nfull rewrite and heavily relies on existing infrastructure at Twitter to run.\nWe cannot commit to a date but we're doing our best to add necessary features to\nmake Snowflake fit for many environments outside of Twitter.\n\nSource code is still in the repository and is reachable from\n[snowflake-2010](https://github.com/twitter/snowflake/releases/tag/snowflake-2010)\ntag.\n\nWe won't be accepting pull requests or responding to issues for the retired\nrelease.\n"
  }
]