Announcing release sync-diff-inspector from tiflow in 8.5

[joechenrh]

Dear developers,

We're planning to move the sync-diff-inspector tool from the tidb-tools repository into tiflow. This change aims to consolidate maintenance, keep dependencies in sync with TiCDC and DM, and enable TiUP-based access for sync-diff-inspector.

Background

As a tool for verifying the consistency between upstream and downstream databases, sync-diff-inspector is primarily used by TiCDC and DM. In the past, the code for some useful tools was placed in the tidb-tools repository. However, as time went by, most of the tools were removed from this repository, and some dependencies were also moved to the tidb repository. Finally, only the sync-diff-inspector tool remained, making it lack of maintenance.

Repositories affected

• pingcap/tidb-tools
• pingcap/tiflow

What will change

• The sync-diff-inspector source code will be moved from pingcap/tidb-tools to pingcap/tiflow in 8.5 branch.
• New issues and PRs related to sync-diff-inspector should be filed against pingcap/tiflow.

Feedback & discussion

We welcome community feedback before we proceed with the migration. In particular:

• If you maintain tooling or workflows that depend on tidb-tools, please share any concerns or suggestions in this discussion thread so we can help with the transition.

— The PingCAP Engineering Team