Overview of Strategic Topics in StreamPipes

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This discussion is intended to provide an overview of strategic topics that we want/need to address.
By strategic topics, we refer to subjects that are too large for a single GitHub issue and require some thoughtful discussion and deeper contentions with more than one person.
The following table keeps track about existing discussions to strategic topics and illustrates their maturity level (from draft to ready to work on to realized/finished).
Our goal is to tackle (at least) one strategic topic within each (minor & major) release.

This thread is intended to provide an overview of strategic issues that we want/need to address.
By strategic topics, we mean topics that are too large for a single GitHub topic and require some thoughtful discussion and deeper engagement with more than one person.
The following table gives an overview of existing discussions to strategic topics and illustrates their maturity level (from draft to workable to realized/completed).

Strategic Topic	Discussion (GitHub or Mailing List)	Status	Target Release	Related Issues
Branch Protection	#882	💬 / 🚧	0.91.0	#1227
Supported Java Versions	#910	✅	0.91.0	#1252
Include website repo in main repo	#965	💬	-	-
Improvements in usability	#828	💬	-	-
Optional values in event streams	#860	💬	-	-
JDBC Sinks	#1313	💬	-	-
Structure of sinks	#1314	💬	-	-
Database for SP Backend	-	💡	-	-
Authorization concept for API	-	💡	-	-
General concept/agreement on logging	-	💡	-	-
Maturity level for processing elements	-	💡	-	-
StreamPipes structure	#1038	💬	-	-
Only Support Flat Event Structures in StreamPipes	#1237	💡	-	-
IoTDB as timeseries storage	#1369, #2857	💬	-	-

Status key:

• 💡 rough idea/draft
• 💬 discussion ongoing
• 🔓 ready to work (issues are written)
• 🚧 work in progress
• ✅ finished/released