Flink release schedule

2019-02-04 Thread Ufuk Celebi
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

Re: Flink release schedule

2019-02-05 Thread Robert Metzger
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

Re: Flink release schedule

2019-02-08 Thread Fabian Hueske
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 We've tried that in the past a couple of times but they became outdated rather quickly.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

Re: Flink release schedule

2019-02-08 Thread Ufuk Celebi
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

Re: Flink release schedule

2019-02-10 Thread Shaoxuan Wang
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

Re: Flink release schedule

2019-02-11 Thread Till Rohrmann
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

Re: Flink release schedule

2019-02-11 Thread Chunhui Shi
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