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