Hi all! ApacheCon is coming up and it is the 15th anniversary of the Apache Software Foundation.
In the course of the conference, Apache would like to make a series of announcements. If we manage to make a release during (or shortly before) ApacheCon, they will announce it through their channels. I am very much in favor of doing this, under the strong condition that we are very confident that the master has grown to be stable enough (there are major changes in the distributed runtime since version 0.8 that we are still stabilizing). No use in a widely announced build that does not have the quality. Flink has now many new features that warrant a release soon (once we fixed the last quirks in the new distributed runtime). Notable new features are: - Gelly - Streaming windows - Flink on Tez - Expression API - Distributed Runtime on Akka - Batch mode - Maybe even a first ML library version - Some streaming fault tolerance Robert proposed to have a feature freeze mid Match for that. His cornerpoints were: Feature freeze (forking off "release-0.9"): March 17 RC1 vote: March 24 The RC1 vote is 20 days before the ApacheCon (13. April). For the last three releases, the average voting time was 20 days: R 0.8.0 --> 14 days R 0.7.0 --> 22 days R 0.6 --> 26 days Please share your opinion on this! Greetings, Stephan
