+1 I think the purpose of the release note page has not changed over the previous releases. It's a guideline for users to upgrade flink which just contains API-like changes. All notable features should be included in the announcement blog which is more visible to users.
Best, Jark On Mon, 13 Sept 2021 at 15:51, Dawid Wysakowicz <dwysakow...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi devs, > > When working on the release notes for the upcoming 1.14.0[1] release I > spotted inconsistencies in where we add release-notes. Therefore I wanted > to ask how do we see the purpose of this page. So far the first paragraph > states: > > These release notes discuss important aspects, such as configuration, > behavior, or dependencies, that changed between > Flink 1.x and Flink 1.y. Please read these notes carefully if you are > planning to upgrade your Flink version to 1.y. > > Which would mean we should not put pure announcements for new feature > there (we can still do that in the announcement blogpost, imo). However, we > do that from time to time (not to point fingers, just some examples): > FLINK-20731(pulsar > source), FLINK-21924 (fine grained reasource management), FLINK-22670 > (hybrid source) ... > > Moreover, I think it is good to remind everyone that the target group for > this page is our user base. I think Stephan put it quite well when > reviewing the PR for 1.14.0 release-notes: > > This is still too much written in a "here is what we did" perspective, > rather than from the perspective of "what does the user need to know about > this change". > > Can I assume the introduction to the page is still correct and thus e.g. > remove the FLINK-20731 from there? > > Best, > > Dawid > > [1] https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/17182 >
