+1 from my side to drop. On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 6:34 PM Seth Wiesman <sjwies...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I'd like to discuss dropping vendor-specific deployment documentation from > Flink's official docs. To be clear, I am *NOT* suggesting we drop any of > the filesystem documentation, but the following three pages. > > AWS: > > https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-master/ops/deployment/aws.html > Google Compute Engine: > > https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-master/ops/deployment/gce_setup.html > MapR: > > https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-master/ops/deployment/mapr_setup.html > > Unlike the filesystems, these docs do not refer to components maintained by > the Apache Flink community, but external commercial services and products. > None of these pages are well maintained and I do not think the open-source > community can reasonably be expected to keep them up to date. In > particular, > > > - The AWS page contains sparse information and mostly just links to the > official EMR docs. > - The Google Compute Engine page is out of date and the commands do not > work. > - MapR contains some relevant information but the community has already > dropped the MapR filesystem so I am not sure that deployment would work > (I > have not tested). > > There is also a larger question of which vendor products should be included > and which should not. That is why I would like to suggest dropping these > pages and referring users to vendor maintained documentation whenever they > are using one of these services. > > Seth Wiesman > -- Konstantin Knauf | Solutions Architect +49 160 91394525 Follow us @VervericaData Ververica <https://www.ververica.com/> -- Join Flink Forward <https://flink-forward.org/> - The Apache Flink Conference Stream Processing | Event Driven | Real Time -- Ververica GmbH | Invalidenstrasse 115, 10115 Berlin, Germany -- Ververica GmbH Registered at Amtsgericht Charlottenburg: HRB 158244 B Managing Directors: Timothy Alexander Steinert, Yip Park Tung Jason, Ji (Tony) Cheng
