The issue is that July 23rd is the "earliest release date" but historically the actual release is weeks after that date from the release plan. So, a code freeze of June 25th would probably give us a better chance of hitting the 4 months goal. Would that work for you?
Thanks, Ismael On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM Mickael Maison <mickael.mai...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Ismael, > > Sorry I had written the reply but never hit "send". > > France has a public holiday on July 14, so I thought I may be out some > days that week. To be safe, I picked the week after as I thought July > 23 was close enough to mid July. > That said I currently don't have anything planned, so I can move the > dates 1 (or 2 weeks) earlier, if this is what people prefer. > > Thanks, > Mickael > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM Ismael Juma <m...@ismaeljuma.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Mickael, > > > > Thoughts on my message below? > > > > Ismael > > > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2025, 7:46 AM Ismael Juma <m...@ismaeljuma.com> wrote: > >> > >> Hi Mickael, > >> > >> The release plan indicates a release in August. However, 4.0 was > released on March 18. If we stick to the 4 months schedule, the target > release should be mid July. Is there a reason why we didn't set the freeze > dates earlier in order to enable that? > >> > >> Ismael > >> > >> On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 10:36 AM Mickael Maison < > mickael.mai...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> You can find the release plan in the wiki: > >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Release+Plan+4.1.0 > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> Mickael > >>> > >>> > >>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM José Armando García Sancio > >>> <jsan...@confluent.io.invalid> wrote: > >>> > > >>> > Thanks Mickael. > >>> > > >>> > On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM Ismael Juma <m...@ismaeljuma.com> > wrote: > >>> > > > >>> > > Thanks Mickael! > >>> > > > >>> > > Ismael > >>> > > > >>> > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 5:54 AM David Arthur <mum...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> > > > >>> > > > +1 thanks Mickael! > >>> > > > > >>> > > > David Arthur > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 07:59 Mickael Maison < > mickael.mai...@gmail.com> > >>> > > > wrote: > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > Hi, > >>> > > > > > >>> > > > > I'd like to volunteer to be the release manager for the Apache > Kafka > >>> > > > > 4.1.0 release. > >>> > > > > > >>> > > > > If there are no objections, I'll start building the release > plan in > >>> > > > > the next few days. > >>> > > > > > >>> > > > > Thanks, > >>> > > > > Mickael > >>> > > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > -- > >>> > -José >
