Hi all! Now that the 1.10 release is out (congrats again, everyone!), I wanted to bring up some questions about organizing the next release cycle.
The most important questions at the beginning would be - Who would volunteer as Release Managers - When would be the release date. For the *release managers*, Piotrek and Zhijiang have mentioned previously that they would be interested, so I am copying them here to chime in. @Piotr and @Zhijiang could you confirm if you are interested in helping out with this? *About the release date*: By our original "3 months release cycle" assumption, we should aim for a release ***Mid May***, meaning a feature freeze no later than end of April. That would be indeed a shorter release cycle than 1.10, and the assumption of a shorter testing period. But aiming for a shorter release cycle than 1.10 would actually be nice, in my opinion. 1.10 grew very big in the end, which caused also a very long testing period (plus Christmas and Chinese New Year are also partially to blame). The exact feature freeze date is anyways a community discussion later, but what do you think about starting with an *"anticipated feature freeze date"* around end of April, so that committers, contributors, and users know roughly what to expect? Best, Stephan
