Without weighing in on the remainder of the discussion; regardless of what happens what do people think about at least making some minor structural changes to e.g. the wiki? For example, putting the Thrift API in a section other than the "user documentation", and being pretty vocal (to the point of sounding repetitious) about recommending that applications use the higher level clients?
I think it's pretty easy to "accidentally" land in the Thrift documentation if you browse around. I'd be happy to try to tweak this a bit. Stuff like moving the thrift refs, and trying to find places on the wiki that links to the thrift API page and re-consider whether (or at least how) to link, etc. -- / Peter Schuller
