On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 2:38 PM Sijie Guo <guosi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Agreed that the main problem is about discovering the existing pre-built > Pulsar connectors. I don't think the PMC should involve hosting and > managing external connectors because it will put the PMC in the situation > in handling licensing issues that I think we should avoid. > I totally agree that the PMC shouldn't get tied up in licensing discussions for third party connectors, but I don't see how that's an issue if we're talking about a repository with descriptions and URLs -- no code, no binaries. Am I missing something? > All the ASF accepted connectors are already in the main Pulsar repo. Even > they are moved to the pulsar-connectors repo. They are managed and released > as part of the Pulsar release. > Right, there's no problem here. Where there is an opportunity to improve is discoverability for third party connectors that the PMC does *not* want to bring in and maintain officially.