Hi all, Thank you all for a warm reception as release managers. We are also glad that the majority agrees we should aim for the end of March as the feature freeze date.
1. Till created a page in our wiki to gather potential features that we
want to include in the release. Thank you Till! We'd kindly ask all
committers to fill in the page with features that they intend to
work on. We'd prefer if only new features end up there and not all
bugs/tasks separately so that the page is not over bloated. Of
course, unless fixing a bug is a really big or important one
equivalent to implementing a completely new feature. In our opinion
a good rule of thumb would be that each entry in the page could (but
does not have to) be later on included in a release blog post.
The page can be accessed at:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/1.13+Release
It would really help us if we knew what are the most critical
features in the release, so that we could keep a closer eye on those
as potential reasons for a delay or make a decision to cut the scope
sooner. We were thinking if it would be possible to mark certain
features as "release blockers". There should be no more than a
single, unfinished one per committer at a time. What do you think of
that idea?
2. Similarly to the previous release we would like to emphasize the
importance of keeping the build and tests stable. We think that
worked pretty well in the last release. Starting this week we will
monitor any build and/or test instabilities. Please expect nagging
for a fix ;)
You can check the current blockers in a dedicated kanban board here:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=445
3. One of the biggest complaints for the past release(s) was lack of
proper documentation. Some features don't have a proper
documentation even though they were implemented a couple of releases
ago. We'd like to remind everyone that a decent documentation should
always come hand in hand with the code. We have even a checkmark for
it in our PR template. ;) Lets try to improve the situation a bit
here! We should no longer allow ourselves to postpone writing
documentation to after the feature freeze.
Your release managers,
Guowei & Dawid
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