+1 The scala shell requires time and expertise that the contributors cannot provide. It will be great to let the broader community have the opportunity to foster and mature the scala shell outside the constraints imposed by the ASF.
On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 9:02 AM Jeff Zhang <zjf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Martijn, > > It is a pity that the flink community doesn't have resources to maintain > scala shell which is useful for interactive user experience. We > （Zeppelin）didn't use flink scala shell module directly, instead we > customized the flink scala shell. So we are still interested in scala shell > module, for us if no one want to maintain scala shell, it would be better > to have it as flink 3rd party library, maybe in flink-packages.org > > > Martijn Visser <mart...@ververica.com> 于2021年9月16日周四 下午7:21写道： > > > Hi everyone, > > > > As was discussed quite a while ago, the community has planned to drop > > support for Scala 2.11 [1]. I'm proposing to also drop the Scala Shell, > > which was briefly discussed in the email thread for dropping Scala 2.11 > > [2]. > > > > The Scala Shell doesn't work on Scala 2.12 [3] and there hasn't been much > > traction to get this working and it looks like the Flink community / > > committers don't want to maintain it anymore. Alternatively, if there's > > still someone interested in the Scala Shell, it could also be moved to a > > 3rd party repository. Removing the Scala Shell would/could help in > getting > > Scala 2.11 dropped quicker. > > > > Let me know your thoughts. > > > > Best regards, > > > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-20845 > > [2] > > > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra817c5b54e3de48d80e5b4e0ae67941d387ee25cf9779f5ae37d0486%40%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E > > [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-10911 > > > > > > Martijn Visser | Product Manager > > > > mart...@ververica.com > > > > <https://www.ververica.com/> > > > > > > Follow us @VervericaData > > > > -- > > > > Join Flink Forward <https://flink-forward.org/> - The Apache Flink > > Conference > > > > Stream Processing | Event Driven | Real Time > > > > > -- > Best Regards > > Jeff Zhang >
