Hi Stephan, As release manager I’ve seen that quite a bit of features could use of the extra couple of weeks. This also includes some features that I’m involved with, like FLIP-76, or limiting the in-flight buffers.
+1 From my side for extending the feature freeze until May 15th. Piotrek > On 23 Apr 2020, at 10:10, Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi all! > > I want to bring up a discussion about when we want to do the feature freeze > for 1.11. > > When kicking off the release cycle, we tentatively set the date to end of > April, which would be in one week. > > I can say from the features I am involved with (FLIP-27, FLIP-115, > reviewing some state backend improvements, etc.) that it would be helpful > to have two additional weeks. > > When looking at various other feature threads, my feeling is that there are > more contributors and committers that could use a few more days. > The last two months were quite exceptional in and we did lose a bit of > development speed here and there. > > How do you think about making *May 15th* the feature freeze? > > Best, > Stephan