pydoop package is broken...

[lewismc]

Unfortunately it looks like the pydoop extra package is… broken. Here’s what I discovered

1. The underlying pydoop library is not actively maintained. The last release was 2.0.0 on May 24, 2019. The dependency defined in setup.py is ^0.9.1 (see below).
2. The pydoop API usage in hadoop.pydoop.reader.py is outdated.
3. Due to both of the above, the pdoc command will not even generate API documentation for this project without adding the --skip-errors flag.

What should we do about this?