+1 for the deletion. Also I think it also might be a good idea to update the roadmap for the plan of removal/development since we've reached the consensus on FLIP-39.
Thanks, Rong On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 8:26 AM Shaoxuan Wang <wshaox...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Chesnay, > Yes, you are right. There is not any active commit planned for the legacy > Flink-ml package. It does not matter delete it now or later. I will open a > PR and remove it. > > Shaoxuan > > On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 7:05 PM Chesnay Schepler <ches...@apache.org> > wrote: > >> I believe we can remove it regardless since users could just use the 1.8 >> version against future releases. >> >> Generally speaking, any library/connector that is no longer actively >> developed can be removed from the project as existing users can always >> rely on previous versions, which should continue to work by virtue of >> working against @Stable APIs. >> >> On 22/05/2019 12:08, Shaoxuan Wang wrote: >> > Hi Flink community, >> > >> > We plan to delete/deprecate the legacy flink-libraries/flink-ml package >> in >> > Flink1.9, and replace it with the new flink-ml interface proposed in >> FLIP39 >> > (FLINK-12470). >> > Before we remove this package, I want to reach out to you and ask if >> there >> > is any active project still uses this package. Please respond to this >> > thread and outline how you use flink-libraries/flink-ml. >> > Depending on the replies of activity and adoption >> > of flink-libraries/flink-ml, we will decide to either delete this >> package >> > in Flink1.9 or deprecate it for now & remove it in the next release >> after >> > 1.9. >> > >> > Thanks for your attention and help! >> > >> > Regards, >> > Shaoxuan >> > >> >>