Thanks Chesnay, +1 to make it official that we no longer actively develop them but user can still use.
Best, Jingsong Lee On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 4:47 AM Chesnay Schepler <ches...@apache.org> wrote: > Users can continue to use the 1.9 versions of the 0.8/0.9 connectors > with future versions of Flink. > > We just make it official that we no longer actively develop them, > > On 08/12/2019 12:22, Becket Qin wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Sorry for being late on this thread. My hunch is that 0.8 and 0.9 is old > > enough to deprecate. However, after checking the downloads statistics > from > > Apache, I am not completely sure anymore. > > > > Here are some Kafka broker jar download stats from the past month > according > > to Apache Nexus[1]. Since Flink only supports Scala 2.11, I only listed > > Scala 2.11 here. > > > > Scala 2.11: > > version downloads percentage > > 0.8.2.1 215478 27.01% > > 2.0.1 155984 19.55% > > 1.1.0 85794 10.75% > > 1.0.1 53745 6.74% > > 0.9.0.1 39825 4.99% > > > > And out of all Scala versions in the broker downloads, Scala 2.11 > accounts > > about 75% of the total downloads. From all the numbers I can see, it > looks > > there are about 1/4 of the users still using Kafka 0.8. I have to admit > it > > is also quite counter intuitive for me. I am pretty sure that new users > are > > not going to use Kafka 0.8 anymore, but the existing users are moving > > slowly. > > > > However, these stats may not necessarily prevent us from dropping > connector > > support for Kafka 0.8 and 0.9, if we assume the users are not going to > > upgrade their Flink version, which might be the case given they did not > > upgrade their Kafka versions for long either. > > > > To avoid surprises, I'd still prefer following the proper deprecation > > process. i.e. mark the connectors as deprecated, announce the deprecation > > plan in the release note, and remove them 1-2 releases later if we don't > > hear complaints from the users. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jiangjie (Becket) Qin > > > > [1] https://repository.apache.org/#central-stat > > > > > > On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 12:42 AM Thomas Weise <t...@apache.org> wrote: > > > >> +1 > >> > >> > >> On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 3:46 AM Benchao Li <libenc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> +1 for dropping. > >>> > >>> Zhenghua Gao <doc...@gmail.com> 于2019年12月5日周四 下午4:05写道： > >>> > >>>> +1 for dropping. > >>>> > >>>> *Best Regards,* > >>>> *Zhenghua Gao* > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 11:08 AM Dian Fu <dian0511...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> +1 for dropping them. > >>>>> > >>>>> Just FYI: there was a similar discussion few months ago [1]. > >>>>> > >>>>> [1] > >>>>> > >> > http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Drop-older-versions-of-Kafka-Connectors-0-9-0-10-for-Flink-1-10-td29916.html#a29997 > >>>>> 在 2019年12月5日，上午10:29，vino yang <yanghua1...@gmail.com> 写道： > >>>>> > >>>>> +1 > >>>>> > >>>>> jincheng sun <sunjincheng...@gmail.com> 于2019年12月5日周四 上午10:26写道： > >>>>> > >>>>>> +1 for drop it, and Thanks for bring up this discussion Chesnay! > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Best, > >>>>>> Jincheng > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Jark Wu <imj...@gmail.com> 于2019年12月5日周四 上午10:19写道： > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> +1 for dropping, also cc'ed user mailing list. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Best, > >>>>>>> Jark > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 03:39, Konstantin Knauf < > >>>> konstan...@ververica.com> > >>>>>>> wrote: > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Hi Chesnay, > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> +1 for dropping. I have not heard from any user using 0.8 or 0.9 > >>> for > >>>> a > >>>>>>> long > >>>>>>>> while. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Cheers, > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Konstantin > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 1:57 PM Chesnay Schepler < > >>> ches...@apache.org> > >>>>>>>> wrote: > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Hello, > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> What's everyone's take on dropping the Kafka 0.8/0.9 connectors > >>>> from > >>>>>>> the > >>>>>>>>> Flink codebase? > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> We haven't touched either of them for the 1.10 release, and it > >>>> seems > >>>>>>>>> quite unlikely that we will do so in the future. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> We could finally close a number of test stability tickets that > >>> have > >>>>>>> been > >>>>>>>>> lingering for quite a while. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Regards, > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Chesnay > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> -- > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Konstantin Knauf | Solutions Architect > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> +49 160 91394525 > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Follow us @VervericaData Ververica <https://www.ververica.com/> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> -- > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Join Flink Forward <https://flink-forward.org/> - The Apache > >> Flink > >>>>>>>> Conference > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Stream Processing | Event Driven | Real Time > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> -- > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Ververica GmbH | Invalidenstrasse 115, 10115 Berlin, Germany > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> -- > >>>>>>>> Ververica GmbH > >>>>>>>> Registered at Amtsgericht Charlottenburg: HRB 158244 B > >>>>>>>> Managing Directors: Timothy Alexander Steinert, Yip Park Tung > >>> Jason, > >>>> Ji > >>>>>>>> (Tony) Cheng > >>>>>>>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> > >>> Benchao Li > >>> School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking > University > >>> Tel:+86-15650713730 > >>> Email: libenc...@gmail.com; libenc...@pku.edu.cn > >>> > > -- Best, Jingsong Lee
