[tracking] Consolidate go-bindata forks

[vielmetti]

This is one of several forks of go-bindata. It would be good and useful for the Go community to bring those forks back together, perhaps under a new name, to minimize the impact of the deletion and uncertain recreation of the original repo.

Commentary

• Reddit /r/golang

Alternative projects (don't use go-bindata)

• https://github.com/gobuffalo/packr
• https://github.com/rakyll/statik

Related issues and repos (forks of go-bindata)

• Remove go-bindata avelino/awesome-go#1675
• Please document history, state and intention of this account and project jteeuwen/go-bindata#3
• Announcement and disclosure jteeuwen/go-bindata#5
• https://github.com/tmthrgd/go-bindata
• https://github.com/shuLhan/go-bindata
• https://github.com/containus/go-bindata

Related downstream repos (consume upstream go-bindata)

• https://packages.debian.org/sid/go-bindata
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/go-bindata

Package and dependency management in Go

• Start a conversation about ipfs/gx-style imports in dep whyrusleeping/gx#141 (gx)
• https://github.com/golang/dep (dep)

Systems that have been impacted by this (many)

• Including vendor pkgs rook/rook#1478

[vielmetti]

add link to awesome-go list discussion

[liweiv]

https://github.com/go-bindata/go-bindata