Hi Mirtijn, You showed me on Community over Code how the release can be done with the new tool. It looks very promissing and removes many manual steps. This is a good idea. +1 from my side too.
Cheers, Ramin On Thu, Oct 22, 2026 at 9:29 AM Martijn Visser <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > During last week's Community over Code conference in Glasgow, organized by > the ASF, one of the tracks was about the new Apache Trusted Releases [1] > tooling. I can't find a new public source except where they announced a > second Alpha [2], but during the conference they said that it's ready to be > used. > > I'd like to volunteer to try this new process with a new release of the > Flink-Kafka connector, which is overdue for a new release. Going through > this process would allow me to document the things on our Wiki on how this > would work for Flink. > The ASF is ultimately building towards automated releases, and I'd like the > Flink community to also release more frequently. I think this is a missing > piece for us to get started with. > > Looking forward to your thoughts. > > Best regards, > > Martijn > > [1] https://releases.apache.org/ > [2] > > https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/apache-trusted-releases-platform-begins-second-alpha >
