We would need to have a stable interface between the connectors and flink and have very good checks that ensure that we don’t inadvertently break things.
> On 10 Dec 2015, at 15:45, Fabian Hueske <fhue...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Sounds like a good idea to me. > > +1 > > Fabian > > 2015-12-10 15:31 GMT+01:00 Maximilian Michels <m...@apache.org>: > >> Hi squirrels, >> >> By this time, we have numerous connectors which let you insert data >> into Flink or output data from Flink. >> >> On the streaming side we have >> >> - RollingSink >> - Flume >> - Kafka >> - Nifi >> - RabbitMQ >> - Twitter >> >> On the batch side we have >> >> - Avro >> - Hadoop compatibility >> - HBase >> - HCatalog >> - JDBC >> >> >> Many times we would have liked to release updates to the connectors or >> even create new ones in between Flink releases. This is currently not >> possible because the connectors are part of the main repository. >> >> Therefore, I have created a new repository at >> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/flink-connectors.git. The idea >> is to externalize the connectors to this repository. We can then >> update and release them independently of the main Flink repository. I >> think this will give us more flexibility in the development process. >> >> What do you think about this idea? >> >> Cheers, >> Max >>
