+1 for the leaner distribution and improve the "Download" page. On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 at 01:54, Bowen Li <bowenl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 for leaner distribution and a better 'download' webpage. > > +1 for a full distribution if we can automate it besides supporting the > leaner one. If we support both, I'd image release managers should be able > to package two distributions with a single change of parameter instead of > manually package the full distribution. How to achieve that needs to be > evaluated and discussed, probably can be something like 'mvn clean install > -Dfull/-Dlean', I'm not sure yet. > > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 10:11 AM Thomas Weise <t...@apache.org> wrote: > >> +1 for trimming the size by default and offering the fat distribution as >> alternative download >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 8:35 AM Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> >>> 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. >>> > >>> >>
