Pure Julia implementation for reading/writing data in the Avro format

Is JuliaData/Avro.jl beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to JuliaData/Avro.jl to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

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Forks
7
Open beginner issues
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Indexed issues
7
Dominant language
Julia
License
MIT
Last GitHub push
May 10, 2024
Latest indexed
Sep 18, 2026
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How to contribute to JuliaData/Avro.jl

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. Your contributions will be published under the project's MIT license.
  3. Follow the repository to hear when a new beginner-friendly issue opens, or look through the other issues below.

Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date

  • Generate Julia types from an Avro schema for typed reads
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    JuliaData/Avro.jl#22 ·

  • Is this package still maintained?
    Possibly taken @quinnj claimed this 73 days ago. Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

    JuliaData/Avro.jl#19 · 2 comments ·

  • write fails on large dataframes
    Possibly taken @quinnj claimed this 73 days ago. Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    JuliaData/Avro.jl#18 ·

  • Problem writing string columns to avro file
    Possibly taken @quinnj claimed this 73 days ago. Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    JuliaData/Avro.jl#17 · 3 comments ·

  • Read and write avro one record at a time
    Possibly taken @quinnj claimed this 73 days ago. Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    JuliaData/Avro.jl#15 · 2 comments ·

  • signed(UInt8) is not defined until Julia 1.5
    Possibly taken @quinnj claimed this 73 days ago. Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    JuliaData/Avro.jl#13 ·

  • Add test case(s) for reading some pre-written object files
    Possibly taken @quinnj claimed this 73 days ago. Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    JuliaData/Avro.jl#6 ·

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