[GitHub] flink issue #2075: [FLINK-3867] Provide Vagrant/Ansible based VMs to easily ...

[rmetzger <gi...@git.apache.org>]

Github user rmetzger commented on the issue:

    https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2075
  
    Thanks a lot for opening a pull request for this.
    I like having virtual machines and deployment available for new projects, so in general I like the idea a lot.
    
    However, I wonder if the Flink repository is the right place for such deployment scripts. The `flink-docker` module in the same directory is also something I would like to relocate in the long term.
    There are some problems with having these in the Flink repository:
    - They tend to outdate over time, because most of the committers don't maintain these scripts.
    - They are not really part of the release cycle. We don't update the versions on releases, they are somehow part of the source release, but not really documented or tested.
    - As you've seen yourself, it can take some time until a pull requests is reviewed and merged. So its probably easier to maintain such scripts somewhere else.
    
    There is a special page on the Flink website for linking to repositories containing helpful Flink material: http://flink.apache.org/community.html#third-party-packages.
    Maybe you can put the code into a GitHub repository and link it from the third party packages pages at the Flink site.
    
    Another good location could be "Apache Bigtop", a project specifically for the deployment of Hadoop-related projects.


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