Remove node red node cf cloudant

[nfstein]

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[knolleary]

Why is this being removed? Lots of users rely on this node to make use of cloudant. Has there been any discussion over the impact this will have?

[nfstein]

Nothing rash is going on. This is part of this issue: https://github.ibm.com/arf/planning-force/issues/4227

[knolleary]

Unfortunately I'm no longer an IBMer so don't have access to that internal repo.

[nfstein]

Description:

There is an old Node-RED palette library included in the dependencies of the Node-RED starter kit that is out of date and receives little-to-no developer support.

We should make a PR to remove the library to development and tag Nick O'Leary to see Developer Advocate implications of removing the library (users would still be able to add back via Palette UI / manual install).

If Nick gives 👍 or doesn't respond in a reasonable amount of time, we should remove the library from the starter kit as it's not being supported adequately.

If Nick gives us a replacement library, we can use that instead.

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Acceptance Criteria:

• Open up PR to remove library from package.json and tag Nick O'Leary
• After 1 week (if no response) merge and promote the PR to remove the library

[knolleary]

Okay, well consider this a big 👎🏻

There were some efforts underway to get the cloudant nodes updated which have stalled in part due to my leaving IBM. We should still be able to revive that work.

node-red-contrib-ibm-cloud/community#1

[nfstein]

So you don't consider node-red-contrib-cloudantplus to be a suitable replacement at this time either?

[johnwalicki]

While it maybe useful to force the issue here, the right answer is to decide how we want to handle node-red-node-cf-cloudant upstream. Discussion in the issue linked by Nick above.

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