Hey devs,
I've been only following Flink dev loosely in the last couple of
months and could not find the following information:
What's the schedule for the next release? In particular, when is the
planned feature freeze and when is the planned release date?
I think this can be valuable informati
Hey Ufuk,
I agree! We should have regular discussions here on the list for scoping
releases, and then put this to the website.
The Beam project has a pretty nice roadmap [1] available on their site.
I actually don't really know if there's an agreed upon release schedule in
the Flink community (I'v
I like the idea of a roadmap that is kept up-to-date.
We've tried that in the past a couple of times but they became outdated
rather quickly.
We've also had a some threads on the dev mailing list to discuss the scope
& features of next releases.
We could discuss and update the roadmap after every
I like the idea of having a road map, but I think that's a separate
discussion. I'd be happy to chime in a separate discuss thread if you
want to drive this Fabian/Robert. Now that I'm re-reading my initial
email, I actually think it sounded a lot like a proposal to add more
information to the webs
I agree with Ufuk that we should publish the plan of the following release
on the website, including the release manager, the included features, as
well as feature freezing date, such that the Flink developers can better
plan their time for PR and reviews.
I am also interested in the “release road
I agree with what was said above. I think that announcing a release manager
at the beginning of the release cycle is beneficial. The release manager
could help with several tasks which help improving the release process if
done continuously:
1. Tracking progress of features and posting updates to
I like the idea of maintaining an up-to-date long term roadmap for Flink.
And the roadmap should reflect the users' wishes to Flink. I remember Flink
did collected users' feedbacks some years ago but I could not find the
links right now -- we could use them or a newer version as the starting
point