Hi Alan, since you are a committer of Flink I don't see any issues merging such a connector to Flink. The reason why we didn't move the connectors out of the Flink repository was the additional overhead for the CI system, Maven files, Apache release process etc. so we decided to maintain connectors within Flink for now.
Please let us know if you have any questions while implementing the sink. On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Márton Balassi <balassi.mar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Alan, > > Your contribution is more than welcome. It would be a great addition to > flink-streaming-connectors. At some point we might move some of these to a > "Flink Packages" repository, similarly to the Spark approach, but currently > the best place to have them is the internal connectors. > > Robert in the previous mail was referring to some file system based > streaming sources, those are tricky to maintain as they have many > overloaded versions. Those will be moved to a different place within the > Flink repo. > > Best, > > Marton > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Alan Gates <alanfga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I’d like to work on creating a Flink Sink for Hive’s streaming ingest[1]. > > But I recall recently seeing a message on the dev list about moving some > > of the third party connectors out of Flink as devs were having problems > > maintaining them. So, is this the sort of thing I should contribute to > > Flink or is the plan to house these types of things elsewhere? > > > > Alan. > > > > 1. > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Streaming+Data+Ingest >
