Hi Great to see progress on CKC.
Before doing the "kamelet" thingy. I wonder if we can get a 0.11.0 release out that is just "the old way" but for the 3.11 LTS release. Then users have that stable Camel version to stay on. Then the kamalet work can be merged after that and go into releases for Camel 3.12 onwards. And yeah I agree that we should get to a point where its only generated from kamelets. Then that also ensures that users that more easily jump from CKC to Camel-K. We could also do a release without the old way as nobody needs all the 300 components in Camel. But then the CKC community can give feedback on connectors needed and we build kamelets for that. If a old connector is needed we could ship the maven plugin so CKC users can generate a custom connector themseleves as "fallback" On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 10:53 PM Andrea <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > finally the switch to use kamelets in Camel Kafka Connector project is in an > usable state: > > https://github.com/apache/camel-kafka-connector/tree/kamelets > > this branch has refactored the existing core in reusable kamelets and has > added generation of kafka connectors using the kamelet catalog as well. The > generation happens using the following criteria: > > - one kafka connector is generated for each kamelet in the kamelet catalog. > - one kafka connector is generated for each camel component ("the old way"), > excluding the component used in at least one kamelet. > > Going forward, as the kamelet catalog will add more kamelets, I personally > prefer to further reduce the number of kafka connectors generated "the old > way" (most probably selecting just the most meaningful/used/that makes sense). > > These would made the project more maintainable by reducing number of > connectors and improving their quality by reusing kamelets that are the > preferred way in camel to define "connectors" and are used/will be used > across all runtimes. > > I would like to give everyone interested some time to look at the work and > think about improvements/concerns before merging it to main and shortly after > releasing a new version of Camel Kafka Connector. > > Regards, > Andrea. -- Claus Ibsen ----------------- http://davsclaus.com @davsclaus Camel in Action 2: https://www.manning.com/ibsen2
