Hi Qingsheng, I'm definitely interested in participating as a release manager again.
Best regards, Martijn On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 9:47 AM Qingsheng Ren <re...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > As we are approaching the official release of Flink 1.16, it’s a good time > to kick off some discussions and march toward 1.17. > > - Release managers > > Leonard Xu and I would like to volunteer as release managers for 1.17, and > it would be great to have someone else working together on this release. > Please let us know if you have any interest! > > - Timeline > > Having 1.16 will be released in the next few days and the 4 months release > cycle after that, we propose to set the feature freezing date on *January > 17th, 2023* (aligned with our version number 1.17 :-)), so that everyone > could enjoy the holiday season and Chinese new year. > > - What we’ll be focusing > > Similar to our previous releases, we’d like to keep an eye on the > timeline, CI stability, release testing, and any communication and > coordination across teams and developers. One thing we’d like to mention in > particular is compatibility, which is a frequent complaint from our > ecosystem developers and users. We encourage all committers to do an extra > manual check to see if any public interface is touched before merging a PR. > We could discuss details in another thread later and update the > contributing guidelines to list which should be treated as public APIs. > Please feel free to raise any discussions if you have anything else to > emphasize specifically. > > - Collecting features > > We'll create a wiki page under this directory[1] for collecting new > features targeted in 1.17 as we always did before to give everyone an > overview and track the progress. Please don’t hesitate to share your ideas > on the page. In the meantime, we’d like to kindly invite our committers to > think about and plan what we could deliver to developers and users in this > release. > > Looking forward to working with you all in the coming 1.17 release! > > Best regards, > Qingsheng Ren and Leonard Xu > Ververica (Alibaba) > > [1] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/Release+Management+and+Feature+Plan >
