+1, agreed with Seth's reasoning. There has been no real activity in MapR FS module for years [1], so the eventual users should be good with using the jars from the older Flink versions for quite some time
[1] https://github.com/apache/flink/commits/master/flink-filesystems/flink-mapr-fs Best, D. On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 4:28 PM Konstantin Knauf <kna...@apache.org> wrote: > +1 (what Seth said) > > On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 4:15 PM Seth Wiesman <sjwies...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > +1 > > > > I actually thought we had already dropped this FS. If anyone is still > > relying on it in production, the file system abstraction in Flink has > been > > incredibly stable over the years. They should be able to use the 1.14 > MapR > > FS with later versions of Flink. > > > > Seth > > > > On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 10:03 AM Martijn Visser <mart...@ververica.com> > > wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Flink supports multiple file systems [1] which includes MapR FS. MapR as > >> a company doesn't exist anymore since 2019, the technology and > intellectual > >> property has been sold to Hewlett Packard. > >> > >> I don't think that there's anyone who's using MapR anymore and therefore > >> I think it would be good to deprecate this for Flink 1.15 and then > remove > >> it in Flink 1.16. Removing this from Flink will slightly shrink the > >> codebase and CI runtime. > >> > >> I'm also cross posting this to the User mailing list, in case there's > >> still anyone who's using MapR. > >> > >> Best regards, > >> > >> Martijn > >> > >> [1] > >> > https://nightlies.apache.org/flink/flink-docs-stable/docs/deployment/filesystems/overview/ > >> > > > > -- > > Konstantin Knauf > > https://twitter.com/snntrable > > https://github.com/knaufk >
