Thanks for starting the thread! I would consider the docker images of Flink convenience binary releases that can happen any time. I believe a simplified, but formal release process would be appropriate (preview / staging images for the community to validate & vote, then release to docker hub).
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 3:29 PM Chesnay Schepler <ches...@apache.org> wrote: > We can create additional releases independent of Flink, but they will > have to go through a formal release process in any case. > > On 22/04/2020 14:55, Ismaël Mejía wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I wanted to discuss about a subject that was shortly mentioned during > the docker > > unification thread (and in some other PR) that is the release of docker > images > > independent of major Flink releases. > > > > In the past when the docker images were maintained outside of the Apache > > repository we usually did intermediary releases to fix issues or to add > new > > functionalities that were independent of the Flink releases and specific > of the > > docker images. > > > > There are two major cases when this happened: > > > > 1. If the upstream official docker images maintainers requested us to do > the > > changes or there was some breakage because some upstream change > (this is rare > > but has happened in the past). > > > > 2. If we wanted to fix issues or add new functionality to the images > that was > > independent of the full Flink release. > > > > We have been working on having Java 11 based images available and this > is an > > example of (2), where we want to publish these images based on the > already > > released 1.10.0 version. > > > > So I would like to know your opinion on how should we proceed in the > future. > > Ideally we should wait for the major release, but the reality is that > (1) can > > happen and (2) can benefit end users. > > > > So what should we do? Can we do these updates without a formal release > as we did > > before, or does it make sense to follow a release process with the > corresponding > > vote for the docker images? or are there other alternatives? > > > > Regards, > > Ismaël > > > >
