I agree with this and I think your proposal for marking them as deprecated and then removing them with the next major version makes sense.
-Matt On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 7:15 AM Eyal Allweil <e...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Datafu devs, > > I have high hopes for DataFu Spark, but we haven't seen any contributions > for Datafu Pig or Hourglass in years. What do you think about deprecating > them? We can leave them in the code for now, mark them as deprecated, and > when we release a major version (2.0.0?) in the future we'll delete them. > If we ever need to make a hotfix or do get a contribution, we can always > fork from the release tags. > > I think this will help simplify our code, website, documentation, and make > it easier for Spark contributors to join. It also has the advantage of > allowing us to upgrade our Gradle version, since the Pig build uses an old > Gradle plugin that hasn't been supported for years. > > Regards, > Eyal >
