Thanks for kicking this off. +1 for the proposed timeline.
Also +1 for Qingsheng, Leonard and Martijn as the release managers. Thanks for volunteering. Best, Xintong On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 3:59 PM Martijn Visser <martijnvis...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Qingsheng, > > I'm definitely interested in participating as a release manager again. > > Best regards, > > Martijn > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 9:47 AM Qingsheng Ren <re...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > As we are approaching the official release of Flink 1.16, it’s a good > time > > to kick off some discussions and march toward 1.17. > > > > - Release managers > > > > Leonard Xu and I would like to volunteer as release managers for 1.17, > and > > it would be great to have someone else working together on this release. > > Please let us know if you have any interest! > > > > - Timeline > > > > Having 1.16 will be released in the next few days and the 4 months > release > > cycle after that, we propose to set the feature freezing date on *January > > 17th, 2023* (aligned with our version number 1.17 :-)), so that everyone > > could enjoy the holiday season and Chinese new year. > > > > - What we’ll be focusing > > > > Similar to our previous releases, we’d like to keep an eye on the > > timeline, CI stability, release testing, and any communication and > > coordination across teams and developers. One thing we’d like to mention > in > > particular is compatibility, which is a frequent complaint from our > > ecosystem developers and users. We encourage all committers to do an > extra > > manual check to see if any public interface is touched before merging a > PR. > > We could discuss details in another thread later and update the > > contributing guidelines to list which should be treated as public APIs. > > Please feel free to raise any discussions if you have anything else to > > emphasize specifically. > > > > - Collecting features > > > > We'll create a wiki page under this directory[1] for collecting new > > features targeted in 1.17 as we always did before to give everyone an > > overview and track the progress. Please don’t hesitate to share your > ideas > > on the page. In the meantime, we’d like to kindly invite our committers > to > > think about and plan what we could deliver to developers and users in > this > > release. > > > > Looking forward to working with you all in the coming 1.17 release! > > > > Best regards, > > Qingsheng Ren and Leonard Xu > > Ververica (Alibaba) > > > > [1] > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/Release+Management+and+Feature+Plan > > >
