About how/when the code is suitable for a release

1.22.0 is a huge release and we have many bug-fixes and improvements, but also 
we changed a lot of code:


• The RexNode normalization and project names remove from digest did change a 
lot of plan from the Apache Flink side
• Personally I fixed about 10+ bugs when I do a pre-validation for Apache Flink 
1.11.0-SNAPSHOT locally

I believe the Calcite code is always in good quality and shape, but these bugs 
still there, we need to find a way to reduce these bugs.

Some fellows suggest to introduce a daily tests for other downstream projects, 
maybe a good idea ~

About the release tag format
The release tag now changes from pattern calcite-x.y.z to rel/vx.y.z, which is 
done automatically by the release plugin of current Gradle, we should make a 
decision which pattern we should use ~

About the release note
Some fellows think that some of the commit messages are not that 
readable/understandable, I have some thoughts here ~


• It’s not easy to keep every commit message readable for the release manager, 
we better do this when we merge the   code
• We may need some part in the future to show the known issues/bugs which is 
introduced in current release
• Do we need to put the credit (commit name) after each commit message ? It 
seems many projects put the credits in the last part together of the release 
note


About the release plugin

I found some problems of the current release plugin work-flow(personal feeling):

• The RC artifacts was removed when I do the release, which actually I think 
should not do, one awkward thing is that my network sucks, I failed in the last 
step, so the RC artifacts removed but the release failed ~
• The java doc doesn’t distinguish main API and test API, they are just 
together [1] ~
• The calcite-core does not publish the test sources now, should we add it back 
?

[1] https://calcite.apache.org/javadocAggregate/

Best,
Danny Chan

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