Thanks for the feedback! I conclude that the community is in favour of a last 1.5.6 release. I'll try to make the arrangements in the next two weeks.
Cheers, Till On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 2:40 AM jincheng sun <sunjincheng...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1. There are incompatible improvements between 1.5.x and 1.6/1.7, so many > 1.5.x users may not be willing to upgrade to 1.6 or 1.7 due to migration > costs, so it makes sense to creating last bug fix release for 1.5 branch. > > Bests, > Jincheng > > Jeff Zhang <zjf...@gmail.com> 于2018年12月10日周一 上午9:24写道： > > > +1, I think very few people would use 1.6 or 1.7 in their production in > > near future, so I expect they would use 1.5 in production for a long > > period，it makes sense to provide a stable version for production usage. > > > > Ufuk Celebi <u...@apache.org> 于2018年12月9日周日 下午6:07写道： > > > > > +1. This seems reasonable to me. Since the fixes are already in and > > > also part of other releases, the release overhead should be > > > manageable. > > > > > > @Vino: I agree with your assessment. > > > > > > @Qi: As Till mentioned, the official project guideline is to support > > > the last two minor releases, e.g. currently 1.7 and 1.6. > > > > > > Best, > > > > > > Ufuk > > > > > > On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 3:48 AM qi luo <luoqi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi Till, > > > > > > > > Does Flink has an agreement on how long will a major version be > > > supported? Some companies may need a long time to upgrade Flink major > > > versions in production. If Flink terminates support for a major version > > too > > > quickly, it may be a concern for companies. > > > > > > > > Best, > > > > Qi > > > > > > > > > On Dec 8, 2018, at 10:57 AM, vino yang <yanghua1...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hi Till, > > > > > > > > > > I think it makes sense to release a bug fix version (especially > some > > > > > serious bug fixes) for flink 1.5. > > > > > Consider that some companies' production environments are more > > cautious > > > > > about upgrading large versions. > > > > > I think some organizations are still using 1.5.x or even 1.4.x. > > > > > > > > > > Best, > > > > > Vino > > > > > > > > > > Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org> 于2018年12月7日周五 下午11:39写道： > > > > > > > > > >> Dear community, > > > > >> > > > > >> I wanted to reach out to you and discuss whether we should > release a > > > last > > > > >> bug fix release for the 1.5 branch. > > > > >> > > > > >> Since we have already released Flink 1.7.0, we only need to > support > > > the > > > > >> 1.6.x and 1.7.x branches (last two major releases). However, the > > > current > > > > >> release-1.5 branch contains 45 unreleased fixes. Some of the fixes > > > address > > > > >> serializer duplication problems (FLINK-10839, FLINK-10693), fixing > > > > >> retractions (FLINK-10674) or prevent a deadlock in the > > > > >> SpillableSubpartition (FLINK-10491). I think it would be nice for > > our > > > users > > > > >> if we officially terminated the Flink 1.5.x support with a last > > 1.5.6 > > > > >> release. What do you think? > > > > >> > > > > >> Cheers, > > > > >> Till > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Best Regards > > > > Jeff Zhang > > >
