Thanks for the update, Joe, Xintong and Dawid. This is very helpful. Cheers, Till
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 9:27 AM Johannes Moser <j...@ververica.com> wrote: > Dear Flink Community, > > here's the latest update from the bi-weekly. > Short summary: still a lot of stuff is going on, the feature freeze has > been > pushed by two weeks to the >>>16th of August<<< and we are working > on the release communication. Good stuff: the test and blockers are > looking very good. > > Get all the updates on the release page. [1] > > *Feature freeze:* > Initially because of issues with FLIP-147 we have been considering > moving the feature freeze, when we did a general update it became > obvious that a lot of teams/efforts would benefit from more time. > So we did what has to be done and moved it by two weeks. > > *On-going efforts:* > What also became obvious, the pure list of links to Jira Issues > doesn't provide a clear overview on the progress of the efforts. > Often the linked issues have a subset of other issues, that also > went into other releases. Some of the subtasks are optional. > We, as a community, need to improve that going forward. For now > I introduced a traffic light style state for each row in the > feature list as a quick fix. I will make sure this will be > updated before the next bi-weekly. > The update has shown that ~20 of 36 planned features have a > positive state. 6 are rather looking bad. > > *Test instabilities:* > The tests became more stable recently, which is a really, really good > thing. > Thanks for all the efforts that went into this. > > *Highlight features:* > We are working on the release communication in general. So we are > collecting > the highlights of this release and did a quick brainstorming which > brought us to this list: ML, Table API, Log based checkpoints... > If there's something worth mentioning please add it on the > release page. > > What can you do to make 1.14. a good release: > * Get an realistic state of the ongoing efforts and update the page > * Start testing the "done" features > * Think of the things that go beyond the implementation: documentation and > release/feature evangelism. > > Sincerely, your release managers > Xintong, Dawid & Joe > > - > > [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/1.14+Release >