If the community cannot manage to keep the vendor-specific documentation up to date, then I believe it is better to drop it. Hence +1 for the proposal.
Cheers, Till On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 3:12 PM Aljoscha Krettek <aljos...@apache.org> wrote: > +1 > > Best, > Aljoscha > > > On 2. Dec 2019, at 18:38, Konstantin Knauf <konstan...@ververica.com> > wrote: > > > > +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 - The Google Compute Engine page is out of date and the commands do 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 > >
