Yes, we need to ensure that 3.9.2 includes enough bug fixes or patches. Personally, I think another value of this email is to remind Kafka users that "yes, we will have a next release for 3.9"
In any case, I believe PoAn will perform a thorough search in both Jira and PRs Matthias J. Sax <mj...@apache.org> 於 2025年9月12日 週五 上午8:19寫道： > I was just looking into Jira, and there is only 13 tickets with "fixed > version" 3.9.2, and not all are even resolved yet. > > Is it worth at this point, to do a release? Is any of these of high > significance? > > Also not sure, if we did a good job cherry-picking fixes to 3.9 branch? > Might be valuable to go over Jira to see if there is more candidates for > cherry-picking to make it worth the work to do a release? > > Overall +1, but not worth doing for just a few bug fixes? > > > -Matthias > > On 9/11/25 3:16 AM, PoAn Yang wrote: > > Hi Chia-Ping, > > > > I’m interested in the 3.9.2 Release Manager role. > > If there no other volunteers, I can handle it. > > > > Thank you, > > PoAn > > > >> On Sep 11, 2025, at 6:07 PM, Chia-Ping Tsai <chia7...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> hi all, > >> > >> The 3.9 branch holds a special significance for Kafka users, so I'd > like to > >> kick off the next release - 3.9.2 - as there are users who expecting it, > >> such as [0] > >> > >> Anyone interested in volunteering as the Release Manager for 3.9.2 can > >> refer to the 3.9.1 release plan [1] for more details. > >> [0] https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/11326#issuecomment-3279463828 > >> [1] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Release+Plan+3.9.1 > >> > >> Best, > >> Chia-Ping > > > >
