Hi everyone, I want to open a discussion on the status of the Statefun Project [1] in Apache Flink. As you might have noticed, there hasn't been much development over the past months in the Statefun repository [2]. There is currently a lack of active contributors and committers who are able to help with the maintenance of the project.
In order to improve the situation, we need to solve the lack of committers and the lack of contributors. On the lack of committers: 1. Ideally, there are some of the current Flink committers who have the bandwidth and can help with reviewing PRs and merging them. 2. If that's not an option, it could be a consideration that current committers only approve and review PRs, that are approved by those who are willing to contribute to Statefun and if the CI passes On the lack of contributors: 3. Next to having this discussion on the Dev and User mailing list, we can also create a blog with a call for new contributors on the Flink project website, send out some tweets on the Flink / Statefun twitter accounts, post messages on Slack etc. In that message, we would inform how those that are interested in contributing can start and where they could reach out for more information. There's also option 4. where a group of interested people would split Statefun from the Flink project and make it a separate top level project under the Apache Flink umbrella (similar as recently has happened with Flink Table Store, which has become Apache Paimon). If we see no improvements in the coming period, we should consider sunsetting Statefun and communicate that clearly to the users. I'm looking forward to your thoughts. Best regards, Martijn [1] https://nightlies.apache.org/flink/flink-statefun-docs-master/ [2] https://github.com/apache/flink-statefun
