Hi Ben, about the "technical roadmap", we have a thread about "Beam 3.x roadmap".
It already provides ideas for points 3 & 4. Regards JB On 01/22/2018 09:15 PM, Ben Chambers wrote: > Thanks Davor for starting the state of the project discussions [1]. > > > In this fork of the state of the project discussion, I’d like to start the > discussion of the feature roadmap for 2018 (and beyond). > > > To kick off the discussion, I think the features could be divided into several > areas, as follows: > > 1. > > Enabling Contributions: How do we make it easier to add new features to > the > supported runners? Can we provide a common intermediate layer below the > existing functionality that features are translated to so that runners > only > need to support the intermediate layer and new features only need to > target > it? What other ways can we make it easier to contribute to the development > of Beam? > > 2. > > Realizing Portability: What gaps are there in the promise of portability? > For example in [1] we discussed the fact that users must write per-runner > code to push system metrics from runners to their monitoring platform. > This > limits their ability to actually change runners. Credential management for > different environments also falls into this category. > > 3. > > Large Features: What major features (like Beam SQL, Beam Python, etc.) > would > increase the Beam user base in 2018? > > 4. > > Improvements: What small changes could make Beam more appealing to users? > Are there API improvements we could make or common mistakes we could > detect > and/or prevent? > > > Thanks in advance for participating in the discussion. I believe that 2018 > could > be a great year for Beam, providing easier, more complete runner portability > and > features that make Beam easier to use for everyone. > > > Ben > > > [1] > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f750f288af8dab3f468b869bf5a3f473094f4764db419567f33805d0@%3Cdev.beam.apache.org%3E > > [2] > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/01a80d62f2df6b84bfa41f05e15fda900178f882877c294fed8be91e@%3Cdev.beam.apache.org%3E -- Jean-Baptiste Onofré jbono...@apache.org http://blog.nanthrax.net Talend - http://www.talend.com
