Dear @asvetlov and @tvoinarovskyi,

first things first: Thanks a bunch for conceiving and maintaining aiokafka during the last years. You know who you are.

Now, I am humbly asking how you are looking at the future of this library. I see that #628 has been fixed by @iamsinghrajat the other day within #629 and #659 has been fixed by @dkilgore90 within #660 (thanks for these!). Also, @tvoinarovskyi already started working on Python 3.8 support on behalf of the fixpy38 branch with 946bbe9.

While #629 has been merged already and made it into a v0.6.1.dev0 pre-release, it did not make it into an official release available on PyPI. On the other hand, #660 is still open and the work on supporting Python 3.8 seems to have stalled as well.

So, as I definitively know how daunting FOSS work is in reality from my own activities in this area, I humbly ask that you don't take any offense on my question. It is just about finding out what your plans are on this. Are you planning to pick up the work on this again?

Keep up the spirit and with kind regards,
Andreas.