I agree with Kostas. Considering 1.3 has many new features which need non-trivial effort for testing, maybe the work on documentation can be done in parallel to testing RC0.
Cheers On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Kostas Kloudas <k.klou...@data-artisans.com > wrote: > Hi Robert, > > Thanks for clarifying this so that we all have a common definition of > what is a blocker. > > The only thing I would disagree, and only is some cases, is the > documentation part. > I think that in some cases, things that have to do with documentation can > and > should become blockers. Mainly to motivate devs to take care of them. > > There are important parts of Flink which are not (sufficiently or at all) > documented > and this can result in confusion / load in the mailing list / wrong user > assumptions. > > Regards, > Kostas > > > > On May 4, 2017, at 7:38 PM, Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > Hi Flink Devs, > > > > while checking our JIRA for the 1.3 release, I found that some issues of > > type "New Feature" have the priority "Blocker". > > With the time-based release model, I don't think its possible to mark a > new > > feature as a blocker. > > > > Only a bug that leads to wrong results, system failure or completely > > undefined behavior (without any available workaround) is a blocker. > > New features, missing documentation or inconveniences are never blockers. > > > > I understand that people want to express that their feature is so > important > > that it is basically blocking us from creating a release, but with the > > time-based release model, this doesn't really apply. > > > > If nobody disagrees, I'll un"block" new features to "Major" new features. > > > > > > Regards, > > Robert > > > > > > Examples: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-6198 > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-6178 > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-6163 > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-6047 > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-5978 > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-5968 > >
