Hi devs, We are approaching the feature freeze of release 1.14. There are a few things that we'd like to bring to your attention.
*1. Feature Freeze Time* As we agreed, the feature freeze will happen on *August 16, Monday (end of day CEST)*. Here we quote Robert & Dian [1] for what a Feature Freeze means: *B) What does feature freeze mean?* After the feature freeze, no new features are allowed to be merged to > master. Only bug fixes and documentation improvements. The release managers > will revert new feature commits after the feature freeze. Rational: The goal of the feature freeze phase is to improve the system > stability by addressing known bugs. New features tend to introduce new > instabilities, which would prolong the release process. If you need to > merge a new feature after the freeze, please open a discussion on the dev@ > list. If there are no objections by a PMC member within 48 (workday) hours, > the feature can be merged. *2. Get prepared for the release testing* During the release testing phase, we will have 1 or 2 syncs per week. The first release testing sync will be on *August 17, 9am CEST*. Similarly to the previous bi-weekly syncs, everyone is welcomed to join the meeting (link can be found on the release wiki page [2]). In preparation for the release testing, we'd like to ask all contributors who have contributed major features to this release to do the following. - Open JIRA tickets for creating *documentation* for new features. Tickets should be opened with Priority Blocker and FixVersion 1.14.0. - Open JIRA tickets for *testing* new features. Tickets should be opened with Priority Blocker, FixVersion 1.14.0 and Label release-testing. - For features listed in the release wiki page [2], please also update the page with related documentation and testing tickets. If a feature does not need documentation / testing tasks, please comment explicitly. Thank you~ Joe, Dawid & Xintong [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra0ae9d8fb6ae1a3c031dc50368eaf000a023b8c78e48797611a882e8%40%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/1.14+Release
