I think it is important that most of the people who contribute new features are available during the testing/stabilization period because otherwise there is a risk that the release gets delayed. Hence +1 for moving the feature freeze to the 6th of February.
Cheers, Till On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 7:00 AM Guowei Ma <guowei....@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for volunteering as our release managers Till, Yun and Joe! > > +1 for feature freeze on 2.6 ,which is more convenient for us to plan 1.15 > related work. > > Best, > Guowei > > > On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 12:01 PM Xintong Song <tonysong...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Thanks for kicking this off, Joe. > > > > +1 for Till, Yun and Joe as the release managers. > > > > Also +1 for feature freeze on 2.6, which would make it easier for folks > > from China to dedicate to the release testing. > > > > Thank you~ > > > > Xintong Song > > > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 11:04 PM Yun Gao <yungao...@aliyun.com.invalid> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Very thanks @Joe for starting the discussion! And it is really > honorable > > > to be the release manager of 1.15~ > > > > > > And for the releasing date, there might be some concerns since Jan. > 17th > > > is closed to the Spring Festival Holiday (1.31 to 2.6) and many people > > > might also start the holiday further in advance, it might have some > > > influence to our releasing test / stabilization period. Thus perhaps > > > another option might be we slightly extend the code freeze date to > bypass > > > the holiday till Feb. 6th ? WDYT ? > > > > > > Thank you~ > > > > > > Best, > > > Yun > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > From:Israel Ekpo <israele...@gmail.com> > > > Send Time:2021 Oct. 26 (Tue.) 08:09 > > > To:dev <dev@flink.apache.org> > > > Subject:Re: [Discuss] Planning Flink 1.15 > > > > > > Thanks for the update, Joe. > > > > > > Looking forward to this release. > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 11:13 AM Johannes Moser <j...@ververica.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > >
