[ANNOUNCE] Weekly Community Update 2020/18

[Konstantin Knauf <kn...@apache.org>]

Dear community,

happy to share - a brief - community update this week with an update on
Flink 1.10.1, our application to Google Season of Docs 2020, a discussion
to support Hadoop 3, a recap of Flink Forward Virtual 2020 and a bit more.

Flink Development
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* [releases] Yu has published a RC #2 for Flink 1.10.1. No -1s so far. [1]

* [docs] Apache Flink's application to Google Season of Docs 2020 is about
to be finalized. Marta has opened PR for the announcement and Seth &
Aljoscha volunteered as Mentor. Apache Flink is pitching a project to
improve the documentation of Table API & SQL. [2]

* [hadoop] Robert has started a discussion on adding support for Hadoop 3.
In particular, the thread discusses the questions of whether Hadoop 3 would
be supported via flink-shaded-hadoop or not. [3]

* [configuration] Timo has started a discussion on how we represent
configuration hierarchies in properties (Flink configuration as well as
Connector properties), so that the resulting files would be valid
JSON/YAML. [4]

* [connectors] Leonard Xu proposes to refactor package, module and class
names of the Flink JDBC connector to be consistent with other connectors .
Details in the [5].

[1]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/VOTE-Release-1-10-1-release-candidate-2-tp41019.html
[2]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/PROPOSAL-Google-Season-of-Docs-2020-tp40264.html
[3]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Adding-support-for-Hadoop-3-and-removing-flink-shaded-hadoop-tp40570p40601.html
[4]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Hierarchies-in-ConfigOption-tp40920.html
[5]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Refactor-flink-jdbc-connector-structure-tp40984.html

flink-packages.org
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* Alibaba has published a preview version of its SpillableHeapStateBackend
on flink-packages.org. [6] This statebackend is contributed to Apache in
FLINK-12692 [7]. The SpillableHeapStateBackend is a Java Heap-based
Statebackend (like the FilesystemStatebackend) that spills the coldest
state to disk before the heap is exhausted.

[6] https://flink-packages.org/packages/spillable-state-backend-for-flink
[7] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-12692

Notable Bugs
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I did not encounter anything particularly worth sharing.

Events, Blog Posts, Misc
===================

* Fabian has published a recap of Flink Foward Virtual 2020 on the
Ververica blog. [8]

* All recordings of Flink Forward Virtual 2020 have been published on
Youtube. [9]

[8] https://www.ververica.com/blog/flink-forward-virtual-2020-recap
[9]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF0hXZfUyqE&list=PLDX4T_cnKjD0ngnBSU-bYGfgVv17MiwA7

Cheers,

Konstantin

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Konstantin Knauf

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