Thanks for opening the issue Chesnay. I think the overall consensus is to drop flink-storm and only keep the Bolt and Spout wrappers. Thanks for your feedback!
Cheers, Till On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 9:37 AM Chesnay Schepler <ches...@apache.org> wrote: > I've created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-10509 for > removing flink-storm. > > On 28.09.2018 15:22, Till Rohrmann wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I would like to discuss how to proceed with Flink's storm compatibility > > layer flink-strom. > > > > While working on removing Flink's legacy mode, I noticed that some parts > of > > flink-storm rely on the legacy Flink client. In fact, at the moment > > flink-storm does not work together with Flink's new distributed > > architecture. > > > > I'm also wondering how many people are actually using Flink's Storm > > compatibility layer and whether it would be worth porting it. > > > > I see two options how to proceed: > > > > 1) Commit to maintain flink-storm and port it to Flink's new architecture > > 2) Drop flink-storm > > > > I doubt that we can contribute it to Apache Bahir [1], because once we > > remove the legacy mode, this module will no longer work with all newer > > Flink versions. > > > > Therefore, I would like to hear your opinion on this and in particular if > > you are using or planning to use flink-storm in the future. > > > > [1] https://github.com/apache/bahir-flink > > > > Cheers, > > Till > > > >
