Thanks Konstantin for driving this. I have no objections in regards to the feature freeze happening in July.
Thanks everyone for volunteering to drive 1.18. +1 on the people who offered to help PS: I shared learnings from the 1.17 release in the other thread [1] to not spam this thread with 1.17-related stuff. [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/1mdbpdo42df4642wtmf91b26p8v2qtbf On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 4:00 AM Yun Tang <myas...@live.com> wrote: > Thanks for kick off the discussion. > > I'm not sure whether I am a bit late here. I had experience on releasing > minor version of Flink-1.13.2 and also be interested in helping to release > the next major Flink-1.18 version. > > > Best > Yun Tang > ________________________________ > From: Sergey Nuyanzin <snuyan...@gmail.com> > Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2023 9:46 > To: dev@flink.apache.org <dev@flink.apache.org> > Cc: Jing Ge <j...@ververica.com>; Konstantin Knauf <kna...@apache.org> > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Planning Flink 1.18 > > Thanks for starting the discussion about Flink 1.18. > I would be interested in helping out around the release as well. > > On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 2:20 AM Qingsheng Ren <re...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hi Konstantin, > > > > Thanks for kicking off 1.18! As mentioned by Jing we’d like to > participate > > in the new cycle, and hope my experience in 1.17 could help. > > > > About the feature freezing date, I’m also thinking to set it around mid > > July. 1.18 will be a larger release with more features to work with > > compared to 1.17. In 1.17 we have ~3 months for development so I think > 3.5 > > months for 1.18 would be reasonable. > > > > Best, > > Qingsheng > > > > On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 07:37 Jing Ge <j...@ververica.com.invalid> > wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Best regards, > Sergey >