Hi Devs! I would like to discuss/propose a new release flow for the Kubernetes operator patch releases.
For the operator the main logic (and the bugs) are part of the operator docker image and the helm charts associated with it. It would be nice to be able to have lightweight patch releases that only contain the docker image + updated Helm chart. This would allow us to give users new docker image releases in a short period of time with reduced testing and voting overhead (these patch releases could have a shorter voting period also). This would also have the implication that any API related change / fix has to be a minor version bump, but I think that is also reasonable. Another alternative would be to simply not have these patch releases and encourage users to pick up the latest automatic image builds from https://ghcr.io/apache/flink-kubernetes-operator for the current release branch, but I feel that production users would not feel very good about this. Cheers, Gyula
