Thanks for info, I wasn't aware of what retiring meant, I assumed (incorrectly) that retiring = death of a project.
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 4:45 PM Manu Zhang <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Luke, > > (On behalf of Gearpump runner) > > Getting retired (from Apache) doesn't mean the end of Gearpump as a > project but to make it easier to commit and release for, honestly speaking, > a small community. > I've been maintaining Gearpump runner and will strive for better > integration here. > I agree we should revisit this question if the runner is too much of a > burden. > > Thanks, > Manu Zhang > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 6:34 AM Lukasz Cwik <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Datatorrent the largest contributor to the Apex project has closed >> shop[1], the project hasn't retired but development has significantly >> slowed down. The Gearpump project has voted to retire[2]. >> >> Do people know if these runners are being used? >> Do people spend enough time on supporting/updating code in these areas or >> looking at test flakes that warrant supporting them still? >> Are there other runners in a similar situation as to Apex or Gearpump? >> Should we revisit this question once we have a larger integration that we >> want to do like SplittableDoFn or portability? >> >> 1: >> https://www.datanami.com/2018/05/08/datatorrent-stream-processing-startup-folds/ >> 2: >> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/03fc0421bb425f79d623863335bc2b81e4b6c77a169f508aadce7785@%3Cdev.gearpump.apache.org%3E >> >
