Ufuk's proposal (having a lean default release and a user convenience tarball) sounds good to me. That way advanced users won't be bothered by an unnecessarily large release and new users can benefit from having many useful extensions bundled in one tarball.
Cheers, Till On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 3:42 PM Ufuk Celebi <u...@apache.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 11:01 AM Timo Walther <twal...@apache.org> wrote: > > I think what is more important than a big dist bundle is a helpful > > "Downloads" page where users can easily find available filesystems, > > connectors, metric repoters. Not everyone checks Maven central for > > available JAR files. I just saw that we added a "Optional components" > > section recently [1], we just need to make it more prominent. This is > > also done for the SQL connectors and formats [2]. > > +1 I fully agree with the importance of the Downloads page. We > definitely need to make any optional dependencies that users need to > download easy to find. >
