Hi all, As people have already started working on their 1.15. contribution, we'd like to start the discussion for the release setup.
- Release managers: As a team of three seems to have worked perfectly fine, we'd like to suggest Till, Yun Gao & Joe as the release managers for 1.15. - Timeline: 1.14 was released at the end of September and aiming for a 4 months release cycle including one months of stabilisation would lead to a feature freeze date at the end of December, which would make the European holiday season a bit stressful. One option would have been to aim for early December, but we decided to go for the 17th of January. Such that we also have some buffer before the Chinese new year. - Bi-weekly sync: We'd also like to setup a bi-weekly sync again starting from the 9th of November at 9am CET/4pm CST. - Collecting features: As last time it would be helpful to have a rough overview of the efforts that will likely be included in this release. We have created a wiki page [1] for collecting such information. We'd like to kindly ask all committers to fill in the page with features that they intend to work on. Just copy pasting what we included into the planning email for 1.14, because it still applies: - Stability of master: This has been an issue during the 1.13 & 1.14 feature freeze phase and it is still going on. We encourage every committer to not merge PRs through the Github button, but do this manually, with caution for the commits merged after the CI being triggered. It would be appreciated to always build the project before merging to master. - Documentation: Please try to see documentation as an integrated part of the engineering process and don't push it to the feature freeze phase or even after. You might even think about going documentation first. We, as the Flink community, are adding great stuff, that is pushing the limits of streaming data processors, with every release. We should also make this stuff usable for our users by documenting it well. - Promotion of 1.15: What applies to documentation also applies to all the activity around the release. We encourage every contributor to also think about, plan and prepare activities like blog posts and talk, that will promote and spread the release once it is done. Please let us know what you think. Thank you~ Till, Yun Gao & Joe [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/1.15+Release
