FLIP ?? Really? :D http://www.maya.tv/en/character/flip
-Matthias On 06/28/2016 06:26 PM, Aljoscha Krettek wrote: > I'm proposing to add a formal process for how we deal with (major) > improvements to Flink and design docs. This has been mentioned several > times recently but we never took any decisive action to actually implement > such a process so here we go. > > Right now, we have Jira issues and we sometimes we have design docs that we > keep in Google Docs. Jamie recently added links to those that he could find > on the mailing list to the Flink wiki: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/Apache+Flink+Home. The > problem with these is that a) the comments on the Google Docs are not > reflected in Jira and the mailing list. There has been some very active > discussion on some of the docs that most people would never notice. The > community therefore might seem less active than it actually is. b) the > documents are not very discoverable, if we had a clearly defined place > where we put them and also prominently link to this on the Flink homepage > this would greatly help people that try to find out about current > developments. > > Kafka has a process like this: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Kafka+Improvement+Proposals. > They call it KIP, for Kafka Improvement Proposal. We could either adapt > this for Flink or come up with our own process. Doing the former would save > us a lot of time and I don't think the Kafka community would mind us > copying their process. The subject also hints at this, our process could be > called FLIP, for Flink Improvement Proposal. > > What do you think? Feedback is highly welcome. :-) > > Cheers, > Aljoscha >
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