Looks well thought out to me! Thanks to all who put the effort into this! On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 6:29 AM Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello NiFi Community > > Please review the proposed roadmap and suggest things to add, remove, > update, prioritize differently. > > Over the past year we have had great contributions that improved the > quality of NiFi and the community. As we know there are many JIRAs > related to improvements or new features. However, it can be difficult > for new and existing community members to know when to jump in, how to > help, or when things they are interested in might be able to happen. > So among other things we should provide and maintain a documented > roadmap to help this. > > The following suggested timeline follows pretty strictly against our > previously stated objective of having releases roughly every 6 weeks. > We do not need to stay strict to this but a time bound (as opposed to > feature bound) release cycle does help provide a regular cadence to > follow and helps give contributors a sense of when their efforts might > end up in a release. > > The items below are largely just focused on some of the major muscle > movements needed at a framework level. There will of course be many > many more JIRAs with each releas. > > NiFi 0.5.0 (Feb 5) > > State Management > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/State+Management > Kerberos > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Pluggable+Authentication > Interactive Queue > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Interactive+Queue+Management > Scripting Support > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-210 > > NiFi 0.6.0 (Mar 18) > > Deterministic Template Export > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-826 > Schema/Format Editor (JSON to JSON,…?) > Numerous JIRAs related to format/schema conversion. An example > implementation: > > https://github.com/fsauer65/NiFi-Extensions/tree/master/nifi-jsontransform-bundle > > NiFi 0.7.0 (Apr 29) > > NiFi 1.0.0 (Jun 17) > > HA Cluster Management > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Clustering+Redesign > HA Data > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/High+Availability+Processing > Multi-Tenant Authorization > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Multi-Tentant+Dataflow > Improved Authorization API > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Pluggable+Authentication > NiFi's current authority provider gathers data then makes a decision. > We should instead support PDP/PEP model [4]. > Modernized UX > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Redesign+User+Interface > Dependent Properties > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-1121 > > NiFi 1.1.0 (Sep?) > > Template/Extension Registry > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Extension%2C+Template%2C+Dataset+Registry > Variable Registry > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Variable+Registry > > The timing of these things is pretty important as far as > interdependencies and how long they'll take to develop and validate. > State management in 050 sets up an important way to have cluster-wide > shared state and introduces zookeeper formally into NiFi which > obviously will be important for the distributed systems behaviors > we'll need as we restructure how clustering works and introduce data > replication for HA data processing. The 060 and 070 releases are > intentionally quite light to allow for very focused work on a parallel > branch of 1.x which probably should start right on the heels of 050. > The 1.0 release will introduce some very key features, offer a chance > to remove deprecated classes, ensure all APIs are extremely clearly > documented for stability and audience, allow us to introduce UI/UX > changes, and so on. > > Now, of course this is simply a proposal and these timings may not > work out. But this should serve as a good basis for discussion and > consensus forming. > > As we progress I plan to update the roadmap [1], product requirements > [2], and feature proposals [3] to reflect these things a bit more > clearly than they are now. > > We should also have a discussion on how long we should be committed to > supporting the 0.x line and what that means. We need to document a > commitment for the community. > > [1] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=58851850 > [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Product+requirements > [3] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/NiFi+Feature+Proposals > [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Open_Policy_Service > > Thanks > Joe >
