> > I use Apache Flink for stream processing, and StateFun as a hand-off point > for the rest of the application. > It serves well as a bridge between a Flink Streaming job and > micro-services.
This is essentially how I use it as well, and I would also be sad to see it sunsetted. It works well; I don't know that there is a lot of new development required, but if there are no new Statefun releases, then Statefun can only be used with older Flink versions. On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 10:04 PM Marco Villalobos <mvillalo...@kineteque.com> wrote: > I am currently using Stateful Functions in my application. > > I use Apache Flink for stream processing, and StateFun as a hand-off point > for the rest of the application. > It serves well as a bridge between a Flink Streaming job and > micro-services. > > I would be disappointed if StateFun was sunsetted. Its a good idea. > > If there is anything I can do to help, as a contributor perhaps, please > let me know. > > > On Apr 3, 2023, at 2:02 AM, Martijn Visser <martijnvis...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I want to open a discussion on the status of the Statefun Project [1] in > Apache Flink. As you might have noticed, there hasn't been much development > over the past months in the Statefun repository [2]. There is currently a > lack of active contributors and committers who are able to help with the > maintenance of the project. > > > > In order to improve the situation, we need to solve the lack of > committers and the lack of contributors. > > > > On the lack of committers: > > > > 1. Ideally, there are some of the current Flink committers who have the > bandwidth and can help with reviewing PRs and merging them. > > 2. If that's not an option, it could be a consideration that current > committers only approve and review PRs, that are approved by those who are > willing to contribute to Statefun and if the CI passes > > > > On the lack of contributors: > > > > 3. Next to having this discussion on the Dev and User mailing list, we > can also create a blog with a call for new contributors on the Flink > project website, send out some tweets on the Flink / Statefun twitter > accounts, post messages on Slack etc. In that message, we would inform how > those that are interested in contributing can start and where they could > reach out for more information. > > > > There's also option 4. where a group of interested people would split > Statefun from the Flink project and make it a separate top level project > under the Apache Flink umbrella (similar as recently has happened with > Flink Table Store, which has become Apache Paimon). > > > > If we see no improvements in the coming period, we should consider > sunsetting Statefun and communicate that clearly to the users. > > > > I'm looking forward to your thoughts. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Martijn > > > > [1] https://nightlies.apache.org/flink/flink-statefun-docs-master/ < > https://nightlies.apache.org/flink/flink-statefun-docs-master/> > > [2] https://github.com/apache/flink-statefun < > https://github.com/apache/flink-statefun> >
