Hi Konstantin, Qingsheng and I would love to participate and join you as release managers for 1.18.
Speaking of the timeline, since we will have a big feature release with 1.18, a feature freeze in the middle of July would be better. It is also not far from your proposal. Best regards, Jing On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 7:35 PM Konstantin Knauf <kna...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > "Nach dem Spiel ist vor dem Spiel" [1] aka "There is always a next > release". With the announcement of Flink 1.17, we have entered the next > release cycle and with it comes the usual routine: > > - Release Managers > > I'd like to volunteer as one of the release managers this time. It has been > good practice to have a team of release managers from different > backgrounds, so please raise you hand if you'd like to volunteer and get > involved. > > - Timeline > > Flink 1.17 was released yesterday. With a target release cycle of 4 months, > we should aim for a feature freeze around the end of June. > > - Collecting Features > > While we are assembling the release management team over the next days and > without anticipating the outcome of any process changes the release > management team might want to try out, I think, we can already start > collecting features as usual on > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/1.18+Release. > > - Feedback > > As Matthias already mentioned in the release announcement: if there is any > feedback on the release process or wishes for the future, please share it > with any of the Flink 1.17 release managers (Matthias, Martijn, Lenard and > Qingsheng) or simply in this thread here. > > Cheers, > > Konstantin > > -- > https://twitter.com/snntrable > https://github.com/knaufk >