All, I'm currently working on MINIFI-422, which aims to bring the MiNiFi code into the NiFi codebase and have the MiNiFi product be a specialized assembly of NiFi. Picture two different Maven profiles that create a NiFi assembly or a MiNiFi assembly, each including the common elements but excluding those things that aren't needed, such as MiNiFi being "headless" and not including Jetty or the UI.
This will be a lot of effort and very invasive to NiFi itself, so I created a MINIFI-422 branch (based on the current master) and pushed that to the Apache NiFi Github repo. I figure that way we can carve out individual tasks and write PRs against that branch, rather than duplicating code in the meantime and having MiNiFi show up little by little in the NiFi codebase. My first task to that end is to continue Aldrin's work on MINIFI-488. I originally had a PR against master for this subtask, but after discussing with Aldrin we thought it would be better to have a separate branch and incrementally add MiNiFi functionality until we're ready for a big PR to bring it all into NiFi. We still want to keep up with NiFi master, so the branch would be subject to force-pushes, rebases, etc. For that reason I'd like to ask that anyone working on that branch please reach out to me ([email protected]) so we can coordinate and collaborate, to ensure we're not stepping on each other's toes :) Also happy to discuss alternate approaches or any other questions or concerns you may have. Regards, Matt
