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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-2111: --------------------------------------- Github user StephanEwen commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/750#issuecomment-142974060 There are also many whitespace changes in this PR, probably due to the IDE settings, which trim lines in all files that were opened... > Add "stop" signal to cleanly shutdown streaming jobs > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-2111 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-2111 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Distributed Runtime, JobManager, Local Runtime, > Streaming, TaskManager, Webfrontend > Reporter: Matthias J. Sax > Assignee: Matthias J. Sax > Priority: Minor > > Currently, streaming jobs can only be stopped using "cancel" command, what is > a "hard" stop with no clean shutdown. > The new introduced "stop" signal, will only affect streaming source tasks > such that the sources can stop emitting data and shutdown cleanly, resulting > in a clean shutdown of the whole streaming job. > This feature is a pre-requirment for > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-1929 -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)