Hi Sean, I don't think Flink has done with a release yet. We are trying to do several RCs to get the one that good enough to ve voted on.
- Henry On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > PS, sorry for being dense, but I don't see vendor packages at > http://flink.incubator.apache.org/downloads.html ? > > Is it this page? > http://flink.incubator.apache.org/docs/0.6-SNAPSHOT/building.html > > That's more benign, just helping people rebuild for certain distros if > desired. Can the example be generified to refer to a fictional "ACME > Distribution"? But a note here and there about gotchas building for > certain versions and combos seems reasonable. > > I also find this bit in the build script, although vendor-specific, is > a small nice convenience for users: > https://github.com/apache/incubator-flink/blob/master/pom.xml#L195 > > On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Owen O'Malley <[email protected]> wrote: >> As a mentor, I agree that vendor specific packages aren't appropriate for >> the Apache site. (Disclosure: I work at Hortonworks.) Working with the >> vendors to make packages available is great, but they shouldn't be hosted >> at Apache. >> >> .. Owen >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I hope not surprisingly, I agree. (Backstory: I am at Cloudera.) I >>> have for example lobbied Spark to remove CDH-specific releases and >>> build profiles. Not just for this reason, but because it is often >>> unnecessary to have vendor-specific builds, and also just increases >>> maintenance overhead for the project. >>> >>> Matei et al say they want to make it as easy as possible to consume >>> Spark, and so provide vendor-build-specific artifacts and such here >>> and there. To be fair, Spark tries to support a large range of Hadoop >>> and YARN versions, and getting the right combination of profiles and >>> versions right to recreate a vendor release was kind of hard until >>> about Hadoop 2.2 (stable YARN really). >>> >>> I haven't heard of any formal policy. I would ask whether there are >>> similar reasons to produce pre-packaged releases like so? >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Alan Gates <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Let me begin by noting that I obviously have a conflict of interest >>> since my >>> > company is a direct competitor to Cloudera. But as a mentor and Apache >>> > member I believe I need to bring this up. >>> > >>> > What is the Apache policy towards having a vendor specific package on a >>> > download site? It is strange to me to come to Flink's website and see >>> > packages for Flink with CDH (or HDP or MapR or whatever). We should >>> avoid >>> > providing vendor specific packages. It gives the appearance of >>> preferring >>> > one vendor over another, which Apache does not want to do. >>> > >>> > I have no problem at all with Cloudera hosting a CDH specific package of >>> > Flink, nor with Flink project members working with Cloudera to create >>> such a >>> > package. But I do not think they should be hosted at Apache. >>> > >>> > Alan. >>> > -- >>> > Sent with Postbox <http://www.getpostbox.com> >>> > >>> > -- >>> > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE >>> > NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity >>> to >>> > which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, >>> > privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the >>> reader of >>> > this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that >>> any >>> > printing, copying, dissemination, distribution, disclosure or forwarding >>> of >>> > this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this >>> > communication in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete >>> it >>> > from your system. Thank You. >>>
