Hi all, I'd like to discuss dropping vendor-specific deployment documentation from Flink's official docs. To be clear, I am *NOT* suggesting we drop any of the filesystem documentation, but the following three pages.
AWS: https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-master/ops/deployment/aws.html Google Compute Engine: https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-master/ops/deployment/gce_setup.html MapR: https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-master/ops/deployment/mapr_setup.html Unlike the filesystems, these docs do not refer to components maintained by the Apache Flink community, but external commercial services and products. None of these pages are well maintained and I do not think the open-source community can reasonably be expected to keep them up to date. In particular, - The AWS page contains sparse information and mostly just links to the official EMR docs. - The Google Compute Engine page is out of date and the commands do not work. - MapR contains some relevant information but the community has already dropped the MapR filesystem so I am not sure that deployment would work (I have not tested). There is also a larger question of which vendor products should be included and which should not. That is why I would like to suggest dropping these pages and referring users to vendor maintained documentation whenever they are using one of these services. Seth Wiesman
