I'm overall against only releasing to official-images. We started releasing to apache/flink, in addition to the official-image, in 1.12.0. That was because releasing the official-image needs approval from the DockerHub folks, which is not under control of the Flink community. For 1.12.0 there were unfortunately some divergences between us and the DockerHub folks, and it ended-up taking us nearly 2 months to get that official-image PR merged [1][2]. Many users, especially those who need Flink's K8s & Native-K8s deployment modes, were asking for the image after 1.12.0 was announced.
One could argue that what happened for 1.12.0 is not a regular case. However, I'd like to point out that the docker images are not something nice-to-have, but a practically necessary piece of the release for the k8s / native-k8s deployments to work. I'm strongly against a release process where such an important piece depends on the approval of a 3rd party. Thank you~ Xintong Song [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-20650 [2] https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/9249 On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 2:43 PM Chesnay Schepler <ches...@apache.org> wrote: > We could just stop releasing to apache/flink and only go for the > official-images route. > > On 28/04/2022 07:43, Xintong Song wrote: > > Forgot to mention that, we have also proposed to use one shared account > and > > limit its access to the PMC members, like what we do with the PyPI > account. > > Unfortunately, INFRA rejected this proposal [1]. > > > > > > Thank you~ > > > > Xintong Song > > > > > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-23208 > > > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 1:39 PM Xintong Song <tonysong...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> Hi devs, > >> > >> I'd like to start a discussion about maintainers for DockerHub > >> repositories under the *apache* namespace [1]. > >> > >> Currently, the Flink community maintains various repositories (flink, > >> flink-statefun, flink-statefun-playground, and > flink-kubernetes-operator) > >> on DockerHub under the *apache* namespace. There's a limitation on how > many > >> members the *apache* namespace can add, and recently INFRA is > complaining > >> about Flink taking too many places [2][3]. They would like us to reduce > our > >> maintainers from 20 now to 5. > >> > >> Jingsong and I would like to volunteer as two of the maintainers, and we > >> would like to learn who else wants to join us. While any committer may > >> serve as one of the maintainers, it's probably nice to also involve at > >> least one maintainer from statefun and one from kubernetes-operator. > >> > >> What do you think? > >> > >> Thank you~ > >> > >> Xintong Song > >> > >> > >> [1] https://hub.docker.com/orgs/apache > >> > >> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-23208 > >> > >> [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-23213 > >> > >> > >
