Hello all, As proposed by Matthias in a separate thread [1], I would like to start a discussion on changing the policy wording to include the release of bug fixes during their support window. Our current policy [2] is to only support the latest two minor versions: " If 1.17.x is the current release, 1.16.y is the previous minor supported release. Both versions will receive bugfixes for critical issues.". However there may be bug fixes that have been resolved but not released during their support window. Consider this example: 1. Current Flink versions are 1.15.3 and 1.16.1 2. We fix bugs for 1.15.3 3. 1.17.0 is released 4. The 1.15 bug fixes will now not be released unless we get an exception
The current process is subject to race conditions between releases. Should we upgrade the policy to allow bugfix releases to support issues that were resolved during their support window. I propose we update the policy to include: "Upon release of a new Flink minor version, the community will perform one final bugfix release for resolved critical/blocker issues in the Flink version losing support." Let's discuss. Thanks, Danny [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/019wsqqtjt6h0cb81781ogzldbjq0v48 [2] https://flink.apache.org/downloads.html#update-policy-for-old-releases
