+1 for this proposal. As a contributor, it would be very helpful to have such blogs for us to understand status and future of Flink.
Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org> 于2020年3月3日周二 上午6:00写道: > I would be excited to read such a blog (can I request topics? :) ) > > We could start very low key by using our wiki's blog feature: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewrecentblogposts.action?key=FLINK > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 8:26 PM Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Great idea, but I also second Seth's comment to separate this in a clear > > way. It's easy to confuse new / potential users. > > > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 8:15 PM Seth Wiesman <sjwies...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > +1 on the idea. > > > > > > My only request would be they are clearly marked as being about > > internals / > > > for advanced users to not give typical users the wrong impression about > > how > > > much they need to understand to use Flink. Nico's network stack blog > post > > > does this well[1]. > > > > > > Seth > > > > > > [1] https://flink.apache.org/2019/06/05/flink-network-stack.html > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 10:39 AM Ufuk Celebi <u...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > > > I'd be happy to read such a blog. Big +1 as a potential reader. ;-) > > > > > > > > – Ufuk > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 11:53 AM Arvid Heise <ar...@ververica.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Dear devs, > > > > > > > > > > development speed of Flink has steadily increased. Lots of new > > concepts > > > > are > > > > > introduced and technical debt removed. However, it's hard to keep > > track > > > > of > > > > > these things if you are not directly involved. Especially for new > > > > > contributors, it's often not easy to know what the best practices > are > > > or > > > > if > > > > > there are related work streams going on. > > > > > > > > > > In the runtime team, we had the idea to set up a dev blog where we > > > could > > > > > introduce newest developments. The scope should be expert users > that > > > > > contribute to the project. Of course, some articles may have a > > broader > > > > > scope and even be linked from release notes. > > > > > > > > > > Examples from our team to give a more specific idea: > > > > > * Deprecated checkpoint lock and mailbox model > > > > > * Revised interface for two phase commit sinks and new JDBC sink > > > > > * N-ary input operators > > > > > * Unaligned checkpoints > > > > > * Operator factories > > > > > * Plugins > > > > > > > > > > These articles would be less formal than a FLIP (but could link to > > them > > > > to > > > > > avoid redundancy) and focus more on how other developers are > actually > > > > > impacted by the changes. It can also be used to share experiences > > > during > > > > > the implementation. > > > > > > > > > > We would like to ask the other teams if they see a benefit of such > a > > > blog > > > > > and would like to contribute. Bonus points if you could provide > > > examples > > > > of > > > > > your topics. > > > > > > > > > > Best, > > > > > > > > > > Arvid > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Benchao Li School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University Tel:+86-15650713730 Email: libenc...@gmail.com; libenc...@pku.edu.cn