Why is Apache Beam a required dependency of PyFlink (and can it be removed)?

2023-10-31 Thread Deepyaman Datta
Hi, I'm trying to understand where the Apache Beam dependency comes from; it's not just a regular dependency of PyFlink, but a build system dependency. Searching through the code, it seems like Beam is only used by PyFlink, and not by non-Python Flink. In my (limited) understanding, it looks like

Re: Flink 1.17.2 planned?

2023-10-23 Thread Deepyaman Datta
Hi Jing, My team and I have been blocked by the need for a PyFlink release including https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/23141, and I saw that you mentioned that anybody can be the release manager of a bug fix release. Could we explore what it would take for me to do this (assuming nobody is