Thanks for letting me drive it, folks. I've created the 3.7.0 release page here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Release+Plan+3.7.0 It outlines the key milestones and important dates for the release.
In particular, since the last two releases slipped their originally targeted release date by taking an average of 46 days after code freeze (as opposed to the minimum which is 14 days), I pulled the dates forward to try and catch up with the original release schedule. You can refer to the last release during the Christmas holiday season - Apache Kafka 3.4 <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Release+Plan+3.4.0> - to see sample dates. The currently proposed dates are: *KIP Freeze - 18th November *(Saturday) *This is 1 month and four days from now - rather short - but I'm afraid is the only lever that's easy to pull forward.* As usual, a KIP must be accepted by this date in order to be considered for this release. Note, any KIP that may not be implemented in a week, or that might destabilize the release, should be deferred. *Feature Freeze - 8th December* (Friday) *This follows 3 weeks after the KIP Freeze, as has been the case in our latest releases.* By this point, we want all major features to be merged & us to be working on stabilisation. Minor features should have PRs, the release branch should be cut; anything not in this state will be automatically moved to the next release in JIRA *Code Freeze - 20th December* (Wednesday) *Critically, this is before the holiday season and ends in the middle of the week, to give contributors more time and flexibility to address any last-minute without eating into the time people usually take holidays. It comes 12 days after the Feature Freeze.This is two days shorter than the usual code freeze window. I don't have a strong opinion and am open to extend it to Friday, or trade off a day/two with the KF<->FF date range.* *Release -* *after January 3rd*. *It comes after a minimum of two weeks of stabilization, so the earliest we can start releasing is January 3rd. We will move as fast as we can and aim completing it as early in January as possible.* As for the initially-populated KIPs in the release plan, I did the following: I kept 4 KIPs that were mentioned in 3.6, saying they would have minor parts finished in 3.7 (as the major ones went out in 3.6) - KIP-405 Tiered Storage mentioned a major part went out with 3.6 and the remainder will come with 3.7 - KIP-890 mentioned Part 1 shipped in 3.6. I am assuming the remainder will come in 3.7, and have contacted the author to confirm. - KIP-926 was partially implemented in 3.6. I am assuming the remainder will come in 3.7, and have contacted the author to confirm. - KIP-938 mentioned that the majority was completed and a small remainder re: ForwardingManager metrics will come in 3.7. I have contacted the author to confirm. I then went through the JIRA filter which looks at open issues with a Fix Version of 3.7 and added KIP-770, KIP-858, and KIP-980. I also found a fair amount of JIRAs that were targeting the 3.7 release but consecutively had no activity on them for the past few releases. For most of those, I pinged the author and explicitly asked if it's going to aim to make it to 3.7. I have not included those here and will not until I hear confirmation. Please review the plan and provide any additional information or updates regarding KIPs that target this release version (3.7). If you have authored any KIPs that have an inaccurate status in the list, or are not in the list and should be, or are in the list and should not be - please inform me in this thread so that I can keep the document accurate and up to date. Excited to get this release going! All the best, Stanislav On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 9:12 AM Bruno Cadonna <cado...@apache.org> wrote: > Thanks Stan! > > +1 > > Best, > Bruno > > On 10/10/23 7:24 AM, Luke Chen wrote: > > Thanks Stanislav! > > > > On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 3:05 AM Josep Prat <josep.p...@aiven.io.invalid> > > wrote: > > > >> Thanks Stanislav! > >> > >> ——— > >> Josep Prat > >> > >> Aiven Deutschland GmbH > >> > >> Alexanderufer 3-7, 10117 Berlin > >> > >> Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 209739 B > >> > >> Geschäftsführer: Oskari Saarenmaa & Hannu Valtonen > >> > >> m: +491715557497 > >> > >> w: aiven.io > >> > >> e: josep.p...@aiven.io > >> > >> On Mon, Oct 9, 2023, 20:05 Chris Egerton <fearthecel...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >>> +1, thanks Stanislav! > >>> > >>> On Mon, Oct 9, 2023, 14:02 Bill Bejeck <bbej...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> +1 > >>>> > >>>> Thanks, Stanislav! > >>>> > >>>> -Bill > >>>> > >>>> On Mon, Oct 9, 2023 at 1:59 PM Ismael Juma <m...@ismaeljuma.com> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Thanks for volunteering Stanislav! > >>>>> > >>>>> Ismael > >>>>> > >>>>> On Mon, Oct 9, 2023 at 10:51 AM Stanislav Kozlovski > >>>>> <stanis...@confluent.io.invalid> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> Hey all! > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I would like to volunteer to be the release manager driving the > >> next > >>>>>> release - Apache Kafka *3.7.0*. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> If there are no objections, I will start and share a release plan > >>> soon > >>>>>> enough! > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Cheers, > >>>>>> Stanislav > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > >>> > >> > > > -- Best, Stanislav
