Most of the inquiries I've had about Gelly in recent memory have been from
folks looking for a streaming solution, and it's only been a handful.

+1 for dropping Gelly

David

On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 2:41 PM Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org> wrote:

> I haven't seen any changes or requests to/for Gelly in ages. Hence, I
> would assume that it is not really used and can be removed.
>
> +1 for dropping Gelly.
>
> Cheers,
> Till
>
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 2:20 PM Martijn Visser <mart...@ververica.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Flink is bundled with Gelly, a Graph API library [1]. This has been
>> marked as approaching end-of-life for quite some time [2].
>>
>> Gelly is built on top of Flink's DataSet API, which is deprecated and
>> slowly being phased out [3]. It only works on batch jobs. Based on the
>> activity in the Dev and User mailing lists, I don't see a lot of questions
>> popping up regarding the usage of Gelly. Removing Gelly would reduce CI
>> time and resources because we won't need to run tests for this anymore.
>>
>> I'm cross-posting this to the User mailing list to see if there are any
>> users of Gelly at the moment.
>>
>> Let me know your thoughts.
>>
>> Martijn Visser | Product Manager
>>
>> mart...@ververica.com
>>
>>
>> [1]
>> https://nightlies.apache.org/flink/flink-docs-stable/docs/libs/gelly/overview/
>>
>> [2] https://flink.apache.org/roadmap.html
>>
>> [3] https://lists.apache.org/thread/b2y3xx3thbcbtzdphoct5wvzwogs9sqz
>>
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