Deprecating Transloadit's rails-sdk

[kvz]

Hi @janko!

Wanted to let you know that we're deprecating Transloadit's rails-sdk. And of course shrine-transloadit is using that currently.

The reason is, it is really just a small wrapper around bundling the jquery-sdk, while these days folks often have their own js bundlers, and Uppy is a much nicer uploading integration for Transloadit (and any other target) than the jquery-sdk is.

So we're currently recommending folks to use Uppy, and then just catch the xhr upload in rails their own way, or maybe upload directly to s3, etc.

Still, that leaves some to be desired. I think the shrine-transloadit plugin for instance still could be very valuable if it removed the rails-sdk and offered to use uppy instead. What do you think? Would you be willing to work with us on this? Happy to sponsor those efforts.

[rmaspero]

Do you have a timeline for the depreciation of transloadits rails-sdk @kvz?

[kvz]

It would be cool if Rails people had a place to turn to, but since we don't use Rails ourselves, is there interest from Shrine maintainers to create an Uppy-based alternative? As indicated Transloadit would be happy to sponsor these efforts

[janko]

I appreciate the offer to sponsor the efforts, but I'm unfortunately not maintaining Shrine anymore, so I don't have availability.

[kvz]

Thank you Janko, would @hmistry be the person to talk to about this or someone else?

[janko]

Shrine doesn't currently have an active maintainer, so unless @rmaspero or someone else using Transloadit would like to work on this, I don't have any other candidates. I would be happy to give the commit bit and gem push access to whoever would take this on.