Re: [DISCUSS] Removal of flink-swift-fs-hadoop module

[Robert Metzger <rm...@apache.org>]

Thanks a lot for your feedback! It seems that there was no objection to
this proposal.

I filed a ticket for removing the filesystem:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-21819

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 2:28 PM Till Rohrmann <tr...@apache.org> wrote:

> +1,
>
> Cheers,
> Till
>
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 11:03 AM Ufuk Celebi <uc...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> > +1
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 27, 2021, at 11:02 AM, Dawid Wysakowicz wrote:
> > > +1
> > >
> > > On 27/01/2021 11:00, Chesnay Schepler wrote:
> > > > +1
> > > >
> > > > While I don't think the filesystem is really useless, in it's current
> > > > state it is not maintainable, and so far no one rose up to remedy
> this.
> > > >
> > > > On 1/27/2021 10:57 AM, Aljoscha Krettek wrote:
> > > >> +1
> > > >>
> > > >> I'm almost always in favour of removing old code instead of
> > > >> continuing to let it rot.
> > > >>
> > > >> Best,
> > > >> Aljoscha
> > > >>
> > > >> On 2021/01/26 14:11, Robert Metzger wrote:
> > > >>> Hi all,
> > > >>>
> > > >>> during a security maintenance PR [1], Chesnay noticed that the
> > > >>> flink-swift-fs-hadoop module is lacking test coverage [2].
> > > >>> Also, there hasn't been any substantial change since 2018, when it
> > was
> > > >>> introduced.
> > > >>> On the user@ ML, I could not find any proof of significant use of
> > the
> > > >>> module (no one mentioned any problems with it).
> > > >>>
> > > >>> *I propose to remove this module in Flink 1.13*. Otherwise, we
> would
> > > >>> release a module with known vulnerable dependencies, and an unknown
> > > >>> stability.
> > > >>> If there are users, they can still use the 1.12.0 release of it. If
> > we
> > > >>> notice that there are a lot of users, we can reintroduce the FS,
> and
> > > >>> add
> > > >>> proper tests for it.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Please let me know if you have any concerns, otherwise, I'll remove
> > it.
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>> [1] https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/14749
> > > >>> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-20804
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > *Attachments:*
> > >  * signature.asc
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