initial cut of context support

[asuffield]

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[johnweldon]

Very nice - thank you.

When you're ready to add the changes to the v3 folder, and you're satisfied it's ready we can make the final approval call.

[firefart]

any update on this? Having a proper context in the package for timeouts and cancellation would be really nice to have

[asuffield]

I'm not able to work on it at present (annoying employer restrictions on open source contributions). Please finish it off and ship it if you can.

[firefart]

I just had a look at the code and I am a bit confused because the same code seems to live in the v3 and in the main directory and past pull requests modify both places. Which one is the correct place to implement the context usage? I guess the root directory is pre v3 and should not be modified?

[johnweldon]

I just had a look at the code and I am a bit confused because the same code seems to live in the v3 and in the main directory and past pull requests modify both places. Which one is the correct place to implement the context usage? I guess the root directory is pre v3 and should not be modified?

You're right to be confused - we started down the path of modifying both places before we (I) fully understood the Go versioning and module scheme - for now we continue to duplicate the changes between the root and v3.

At some point we'll need to clean up the repository, but haven't taken the time yet.