Joe, Thanks for highlighting the Kafka Connect external module. I concur with your evaluation, I have not observed community usage or questions, so it seems best to remove from the main branch.
Regards, David Handermann On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 2:18 PM Otto Fowler <ottobackwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I would say nuke it, as you are saying. I would also say you should cross > post this to users@ as they will have relevant input > > > On May 7, 2024 at 1:32:11 PM, Joe Witt (joew...@apache.org) wrote: > > Team, > > The only component remaining is kafka-connect in the nifi-external module. > As noted in [1] it does not see much active maintenance and I never see in > the apache community any questions/usage related either. Kafka is > currently on 3.7.0 and this component is Kafka 2.6 for example. > > We should not carry this forward in the 2.x line. To be clear Kafka > remains a super important component to interact with and our Kafka > components within NiFi do see maintenance including an active PR under > review right now. But this is our last 'nifi-external' remaining and is > not maintained. > > I'll file a PR under this JIRA [1] and its child JIRA for removal on 2x and > deprecation on 1x but wanted to flag this here in case there is some > substantial usage and/or maintenance/update coming soon. Even if desire > remains to keep it alive that should be considered to occur in another repo > or by another group that leverages it - but please let me know if there is > apache community usage/mx I'm not aware of. > > Thoughts? > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-13171 > > Thanks > Joe
