Re: [DISCUSS] Adding Azure Platform Support in DataStream, Table and SQL Connectors

2020-07-24 Thread Robert Metzger
Great! Looking forward to your first pull request. I agree that having a connector in Flink's codebase will probably help it's adoption. However, we are careful with the connectors we are adding to Flink for the following reasons: a) The Flink project is lacking people to maintain all connectors,

Re: [DISCUSS] Adding Azure Platform Support in DataStream, Table and SQL Connectors

2020-07-23 Thread Israel Ekpo
Thanks for the guidance Robert. I appreciate the prompt response and will share the pull requests for the ADLS support [2] next week. Regarding the additional, I would like to contribute them to the main codebase [1] if possible I initially thought maybe it is better to start outside the core cod

Re: [DISCUSS] Adding Azure Platform Support in DataStream, Table and SQL Connectors

2020-07-23 Thread Robert Metzger
Hi Israel, thanks a lot for reaching out! I'm very excited about your efforts to bring additional Azure support into Flink. There are ~50 threads on the user@ mailing list mentioning Azure -- that's good evidence that our users use Flink in Azure. Regarding your questions: Do I need to create a