Sounds like a good idea to me. +1
Fabian 2015-12-10 15:31 GMT+01:00 Maximilian Michels <m...@apache.org>: > Hi squirrels, > > By this time, we have numerous connectors which let you insert data > into Flink or output data from Flink. > > On the streaming side we have > > - RollingSink > - Flume > - Kafka > - Nifi > - RabbitMQ > - Twitter > > On the batch side we have > > - Avro > - Hadoop compatibility > - HBase > - HCatalog > - JDBC > > > Many times we would have liked to release updates to the connectors or > even create new ones in between Flink releases. This is currently not > possible because the connectors are part of the main repository. > > Therefore, I have created a new repository at > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/flink-connectors.git. The idea > is to externalize the connectors to this repository. We can then > update and release them independently of the main Flink repository. I > think this will give us more flexibility in the development process. > > What do you think about this idea? > > Cheers, > Max >
