+1 for not actively developing connector for Kafka 0.8 / 0.9 and mark them as deprecated.
Thanks, Jiangjie (Becket) Qin On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 7:40 PM Yu Li <car...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 for dropping the official support (no longer actively develop them). > > Thanks for bring this up Chesnay! > > Best Regards, > Yu > > > On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 at 11:57, Jingsong Li <jingsongl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks Chesnay, >> >> +1 to make it official that we no longer actively develop them but user >> can >> still use. >> >> Best, >> Jingsong Lee >> >> On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 4:47 AM Chesnay Schepler <ches...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> >> > Users can continue to use the 1.9 versions of the 0.8/0.9 connectors >> > with future versions of Flink. >> > >> > We just make it official that we no longer actively develop them, >> > >> > On 08/12/2019 12:22, Becket Qin wrote: >> > > Hi all, >> > > >> > > Sorry for being late on this thread. My hunch is that 0.8 and 0.9 is >> old >> > > enough to deprecate. However, after checking the downloads statistics >> > from >> > > Apache, I am not completely sure anymore. >> > > >> > > Here are some Kafka broker jar download stats from the past month >> > according >> > > to Apache Nexus[1]. Since Flink only supports Scala 2.11, I only >> listed >> > > Scala 2.11 here. >> > > >> > > Scala 2.11: >> > > version downloads percentage >> > > 0.8.2.1 215478 27.01% >> > > 2.0.1 155984 19.55% >> > > 1.1.0 85794 10.75% >> > > 1.0.1 53745 6.74% >> > > 0.9.0.1 39825 4.99% >> > > >> > > And out of all Scala versions in the broker downloads, Scala 2.11 >> > accounts >> > > about 75% of the total downloads. From all the numbers I can see, it >> > looks >> > > there are about 1/4 of the users still using Kafka 0.8. I have to >> admit >> > it >> > > is also quite counter intuitive for me. I am pretty sure that new >> users >> > are >> > > not going to use Kafka 0.8 anymore, but the existing users are moving >> > > slowly. >> > > >> > > However, these stats may not necessarily prevent us from dropping >> > connector >> > > support for Kafka 0.8 and 0.9, if we assume the users are not going to >> > > upgrade their Flink version, which might be the case given they did >> not >> > > upgrade their Kafka versions for long either. >> > > >> > > To avoid surprises, I'd still prefer following the proper deprecation >> > > process. i.e. mark the connectors as deprecated, announce the >> deprecation >> > > plan in the release note, and remove them 1-2 releases later if we >> don't >> > > hear complaints from the users. >> > > >> > > Thanks, >> > > >> > > Jiangjie (Becket) Qin >> > > >> > > [1] https://repository.apache.org/#central-stat >> > > >> > > >> > > On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 12:42 AM Thomas Weise <t...@apache.org> wrote: >> > > >> > >> +1 >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 3:46 AM Benchao Li <libenc...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> >> > >>> +1 for dropping. >> > >>> >> > >>> Zhenghua Gao <doc...@gmail.com> 于2019年12月5日周四 下午4:05写道： >> > >>> >> > >>>> +1 for dropping. >> > >>>> >> > >>>> *Best Regards,* >> > >>>> *Zhenghua Gao* >> > >>>> >> > >>>> >> > >>>> On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 11:08 AM Dian Fu <dian0511...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> > >>>> >> > >>>>> +1 for dropping them. >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> Just FYI: there was a similar discussion few months ago [1]. >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> [1] >> > >>>>> >> > >> >> > >> http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Drop-older-versions-of-Kafka-Connectors-0-9-0-10-for-Flink-1-10-td29916.html#a29997 >> > >>>>> 在 2019年12月5日，上午10:29，vino yang <yanghua1...@gmail.com> 写道： >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> +1 >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> jincheng sun <sunjincheng...@gmail.com> 于2019年12月5日周四 上午10:26写道： >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>>> +1 for drop it, and Thanks for bring up this discussion Chesnay! >> > >>>>>> >> > >>>>>> Best, >> > >>>>>> Jincheng >> > >>>>>> >> > >>>>>> Jark Wu <imj...@gmail.com> 于2019年12月5日周四 上午10:19写道： >> > >>>>>> >> > >>>>>>> +1 for dropping, also cc'ed user mailing list. >> > >>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>> Best, >> > >>>>>>> Jark >> > >>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>> On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 03:39, Konstantin Knauf < >> > >>>> konstan...@ververica.com> >> > >>>>>>> wrote: >> > >>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>>> Hi Chesnay, >> > >>>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>>> +1 for dropping. I have not heard from any user using 0.8 or >> 0.9 >> > >>> for >> > >>>> a >> > >>>>>>> long >> > >>>>>>>> while. >> > >>>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>>> Cheers, >> > >>>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>>> Konstantin >> > >>>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 1:57 PM Chesnay Schepler < >> > >>> ches...@apache.org> >> > >>>>>>>> wrote: >> > >>>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>>>> Hello, >> > >>>>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>>>> What's everyone's take on dropping the Kafka 0.8/0.9 >> connectors >> > >>>> from >> > >>>>>>> the >> > >>>>>>>>> Flink codebase? >> > >>>>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>>>> We haven't touched either of them for the 1.10 release, and it >> > >>>> seems >> > >>>>>>>>> quite unlikely that we will do so in the future. >> > >>>>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>>>> We could finally close a number of test stability tickets that >> > >>> have >> > >>>>>>> been >> > >>>>>>>>> lingering for quite a while. >> > >>>>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>>>> Regards, >> > >>>>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>>>> Chesnay >> > >>>>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>>> -- >> > >>>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>>> 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 >> > >>>>>>>> >> > >>> >> > >>> -- >> > >>> >> > >>> Benchao Li >> > >>> School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking >> > University >> > >>> Tel:+86-15650713730 >> > >>> Email: libenc...@gmail.com; libenc...@pku.edu.cn >> > >>> >> > >> > >> >> -- >> Best, Jingsong Lee >> >
