I think top level maven module called "flink-contrib" is reasonable. There are other projects having contrib package such as Akka, Django.
Regards, Chiwan Park (Sent with iPhone) 2015. 1. 24. 오후 7:15 Fabian Hueske <fhue...@gmail.com> 작성: > Hi all, > > we got a few contribution requests lately to add cool but "non-core" > features to our API. > In previous discussions, concerns were raised to not bloat the APIs with > too many "shortcut", "syntactic sugar", or special-case features. > > Instead we could setup a place to add Input/OutputFormats, common > operations, etc. which does not need as much control as the core APIs. Open > questions are: > - How do we organize it? (top-level maven module, modules in flink-java, > flink-scala, java packages in the API modules, ...) > - How do we name it? flink-utils, flink-packages, ... > > Any opinions on this? > > Cheers, Fabian