Is there a doc that covers or explains why Meltano taps are different from Singer Taps? Shouldn’t the Meltano tap registry contain > 50 taps? Is help needed or do I just misunderstand?

@john_g Good question, and I intend to clear that up in https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/merge_requests/1641! There's no such thing as a "Meltano tap", as Meltano aims to support all existing and new Singer taps. However, for Meltano to be able to use a Singer tap as a "Meltano extractor" plugin, it needs some extra information (metadata) about the tap's capabilities and settings. When you add a custom plugin (see https://meltano.com/#meltano-add), you'll be asked to provide this metadata yourself. When you add a "known" extractor by name, Meltano will look up this metadata in a file called

discovery.yml

(https://meltano.com/docs/contributor-guide.html#known-plugins). This means that for existing Singer taps to become known extractors in Meltano, a user (like yourself) will first need to add it to a local Meltano project as a custom plugin, verify it works with the provided metadata, and then contribute that new metadata to the Meltano project.

Thanks for clarifying Douwe. I appreciate all the hard work.

@john_g Thanks for giving it a try and for your feedback 🙂 I know there are still a lot of rough edges, but together we'll smoothen them out!