Hi, Thanks for your feedbacks. I will clean up the table and add a link to the table of the previous release.
Best regards, Jing On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 12:30 PM David Radley <david_rad...@uk.ibm.com> wrote: > Hi, > I like the proposal from Martijn. Having an ‘archived’ area for the older > material would make sense so users on the older versions can still access > the content for upgrade, keeping maybe the latest 3 releases in active > table, > Kind regards, David. > > From: Martijn Visser <martijnvis...@apache.org> > Date: Friday, 15 September 2023 at 14:33 > To: dev@flink.apache.org <dev@flink.apache.org> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS]clean up the savepoints compatibility > table > Hi Jing, > > I think it's fine to update the table to include lesser versions, as long > as we provide a link to an older version of the table, for users who might > be trying to upgrade from an older Flink version to the latest, so that > they are aware of potential issues that could run into. > > Best regards, > > Martijn > > On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 10:22 PM Jing Ge <j...@ververica.com.invalid> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > According the community update policy[1] for old releases, there is > another > > cleaner option: > > > > option 3: only keep the last three versions. > > > > Compatibility info of older versions could still be found in the old > > releases. > > > > If there are no concerns, the upcoming 1.18 release will choose option 3 > > which aligns with the community's support policy. > > > > Best regards, > > Jing > > > > [1] https://flink.apache.org/downloads/#update-policy-for-old-releases > > > > On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 1:03 PM Jing Ge <j...@ververica.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > The compatibility table[1] contains old Flink versions. Does it make > > sense > > > to clean up and remove some very old versions? My proposal would be: > > > > > > option 1: keeping less than the last 10 versions in this table so that > in > > > most cases reader does not need to scroll to the right to read hidden > > > columns. > > > option 2: remove versions older than 1.8.x, since their savepoints are > > not > > > compatible with 1.17.x (the last release). > > > > > > If we could reach a consensus, it will go into effect immediately with > > the > > > master branch and the upcoming 1.18 release. > > > > > > Looking forward to your feedback and votes. > > > > > > > > > Best regards, > > > Jing > > > > > > [1] > > > > > > https://nightlies.apache.org/flink/flink-docs-master/docs/ops/upgrading/#compatibility-table > > > > > > > > > > > > > Unless otherwise stated above: > > IBM United Kingdom Limited > Registered in England and Wales with number 741598 > Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hants. PO6 3AU >
