Do we have consensus on metadata repo + generated docs page to start with?
On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 8:44 AM Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 2:55 PM Sijie Guo <guosi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> An alternative is to just add a table to the connectors documentation page >> like how we add third-party clients. >> http://pulsar.apache.org/docs/en/client-libraries/#third-party-clients >> >> It only refers to the Github repos for those connectors but doesn't point >> to any downloadable binaries. >> It provides the ability for people to discover the connectors. People can >> then go to those repos to find the connectors to use. But the PMC doesn't >> need to be pulled into the risk for managing versions and releases for >> external connectors. >> > > I'm really confused as to how I've implied that the PMC should manage > versions and releases, because that was the opposite of my intention! > > But yes, that kind of table is exactly what I have in mind. I'm just > saying that as an implementation detail, I like the idea to have a separate > repo that contains connector metadata of the sort that Andrey proposes, > that we then generate the docs table from. It's a pretty high barrier to > entry if we have people editing the docs by hand (and building it to make > sure it works) to submit a PR for a new connector. > > > -- Jonathan Ellis co-founder, http://www.datastax.com @spyced
