Time to retire my Rapsberry Pi Tensorflow Docker project?

I need your advice!

Six years ago I did some experiments using TensorFlow on the Raspberry Pi.  

It takes hours to compile TensorFlow on the Pi, and when I started the Pi platform wasn't officially supported. Sam Abrahams found his way thorough the rather scary compilation process, and I used his wheel to build a Docker image for the Pi that contained TensorFlow and Jupyter. That made it easy for users to experiment by installing Docker and then running the image.

I was a bit anxious, as that was my first docker project, but it proved very popular.

Things have change a lot since then. For a while, the TensorFlow team offered official support for the Raspberry Pi, though that has now stopped. You can still download a wheel but it's very out-of-date.

I recently discovered Leigh Johnson's post on how to install full TensorFlow on the Pi. It's slightly out-of-date but the instructions on how to compile it yourself probably still work.

Most Pi-based AI projects now use TensorFlow Lite with or without the Coral USB accelerator, and I'm wondering what to do about my Docker-based Pi project.

Should I

  1. Announce that work has stopped, and explain why, or
  2. Try to update the project with a bulls-eye docker image containing TensorFlow 2 and Jupyter?
If you don't feel like commenting below. I'm running a poll on Twitter.

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