TDLR I would like to propose donating this project to the Apache Arrow project https://arrow.apache.org/

Rationale

1. A common, high quality object store abstraction for communicating with various remote object stores is useful for a range of projects and usecases.
2. A library with a common API to access remote object stores is directly aligned with the Arrow mission of providing building blocks for modern high performance analytics systems
3. The clear governance of Apache Arrow offers the best chance to build a unified and strong community around this crate, hopefully both increasing its adoption and attracting community contributions for its long term evolution and maintenance

Background

Object stores are increasing important for analytic systems as more data is located in such systems; @yjshen donated an object store abstraction to Arrow Datafusion to allow Datafusion to read from local files, S3, hdfs, and others. In apache/datafusion#2489 the DataFusion community is proposing migrating from this original object store abstraction, part of the DataFusion project (part of apache arrow) to the code in this crate.

Provenance

The code in this crate was originally developed by InfluxData, largely by @carols10cents, for InfluxDB IOx. @tustvold has since extracted the code and released it as its own crate. Upon consideration, as described above, for the long term health of both this code and the arrow-rs and arrow-datafusion projects, moving it to be an official part of Arrow would be beneficial and we would like to donate it to the community

There is additional background here apache/datafusion#2677 (comment)

This ticket hopefully can serve as a discussion on the form this donation can take. Some options:

1. Move code into the arrow-datafusion repository
2. Move code into the arrow-rs repository
3. Move code to an apache/arrow-object-store-rs repository
4. Move code to datafusion-contrib