It is not viable for us, as of right now, to release both a lean and fat
version of flink-dist.
We don't have the required tooling to assemble a correct NOTICE file for
that scenario.
Besides that his would also go against recent efforts to reduce the
total size of a Flink release,
as we'd be increasing the total size again by roughly 60% (and naturally
also increase the compile
time of releases), which I'd like to avoid.
I like Stephans compromise of excluding reporters and file-systems; this
removes more than 100mb
from the distribution yet still retains all the user-facing APIs.
Do note that hadoop will already not be included in convenience binaries
for 1.8 . This was
the motivation behind the new section on the download page.
On 25.01.2019 06:42, Jark Wu wrote:
+1 for the leaner distribution and improve the "Download" page.
On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 at 01:54, Bowen Li <bowenl...@gmail.com> wrote:
+1 for leaner distribution and a better 'download' webpage.
+1 for a full distribution if we can automate it besides supporting the
leaner one. If we support both, I'd image release managers should be able
to package two distributions with a single change of parameter instead of
manually package the full distribution. How to achieve that needs to be
evaluated and discussed, probably can be something like 'mvn clean install
-Dfull/-Dlean', I'm not sure yet.
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 10:11 AM Thomas Weise <t...@apache.org> wrote:
+1 for trimming the size by default and offering the fat distribution as
alternative download
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 8:35 AM Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org>
wrote:
Ufuk's proposal (having a lean default release and a user convenience
tarball) sounds good to me. That way advanced users won't be bothered by
an
unnecessarily large release and new users can benefit from having many
useful extensions bundled in one tarball.
Cheers,
Till
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 3:42 PM Ufuk Celebi <u...@apache.org> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 11:01 AM Timo Walther <twal...@apache.org>
wrote:
I think what is more important than a big dist bundle is a helpful
"Downloads" page where users can easily find available filesystems,
connectors, metric repoters. Not everyone checks Maven central for
available JAR files. I just saw that we added a "Optional components"
section recently [1], we just need to make it more prominent. This is
also done for the SQL connectors and formats [2].
+1 I fully agree with the importance of the Downloads page. We
definitely need to make any optional dependencies that users need to
download easy to find.
