serde_yaml is unmaintained

[jayvdb]

https://crates.io/crates/serde_yaml latest version is "v0.9.34+deprecated" - uploaded March 2024

Repo https://github.com/dtolnay/serde-yaml was also archived.

Forks:

• https://github.com/sebastienrousseau/serde_yml/commits/master/ - 110 commits - uses https://crates.io/crates/libyml instead of also unmaintained unsafe-libyaml
• https://crates.io/crates/serde_yaml_ng - ~30 commits / quite active at https://github.com/acatton/serde-yaml-ng/commits/master/
• https://crates.io/crates/serde_norway - ~30 commits / quite active at https://github.com/cafkafk/serde-norway , however states that they are not committed to maintaining long term
• https://crates.io/crates/serde_yaml_ok - one enhancement at https://github.com/mkovaxx/serde-yaml-ok/commits/main/
• https://github.com/chhe/serde-yaml - branches of 0.8 instead of 0.9 - @chhe , what was the reason for doing this?

Alternatives:

• https://crates.io/crates/serde_yaml2 , project started in April 2024 - https://github.com/zim32/serde_yaml2/commits/main/ ; uses https://github.com/Ethiraric/yaml-rust2 instead of libyaml - Incompatibilities being collated at Compatibility with serde_yaml zim32/serde_yaml2#2
• https://github.com/KmolYuan/yaml-peg-rs - no yaml dependency used
• https://github.com/qiuchengxuan/serde-yaml-core - not on crates.io - "serde-yaml for no_std programs"
• https://github.com/s1s5/serde-yaml - another attempt at using yaml-rust2
• https://github.com/g-plane/pretty_yaml - no yaml dependency used

[cafkafk]

https://crates.io/crates/serde_norway - ~30 commits / quite active at https://github.com/cafkafk/serde-norway , however states that they are not committed to maintaining long term

Regarding this, I've decided to actually commit to maintaining it, since it has made it's way into too many projects I care about.