Hi all, Martijn and I would like to initiate a discussion on the Flink roadmap, which should cover the project's long-term roadmap and the regular update mechanism.
Xintong has already started a discussion about Flink 2.0 planning. One of the points raised in that discussion is that we should have a high-level discussion of the roadmap to present where the project is heading (which doesn't necessarily need to block the Flink 2.0 planning). Moreover, the roadmap on the Flink website [1] hasn't been updated for half a year, and the last update was for the feature radar for the 1.15 release. It has been 2 years since the community discussed Flink's overall roadmap. I would like to raise two topics for discussion: 1. The new roadmap. This should be an updated version of the current roadmap[1]. 2. A mechanism to regularly discuss and update the roadmap. To make the first topic discussion more efficient, Martijn and I volunteer to summarize the ongoing big things of different components and present a roadmap draft to the community in the next few weeks. This should be a good starting point for a more detailed discussion. Regarding the regular update mechanism, there was a proposal in a thread [2] three years ago to make the release manager responsible for updating the roadmap. However, it appears that this was not documented as a release management task [3], and the roadmap update wasn't performed for releases 1.16 and 1.17. In my opinion, making release managers responsible for keeping the roadmap up to date is a good idea. Specifically, release managers of release X can kick off the roadmap update at the beginning of release X, which can be a joint task with collecting a feature list [4]. Additionally, release managers of release X-1 can help verify and remove the accomplished items from the roadmap and update the feature radar. What do you think? Do you have other ideas? Best, Jark & Martijn [1]: https://flink.apache.org/roadmap.html [2]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/o0l3cg6yphxwrww0k7215jgtw3yfoybv [3]: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/Flink+Release+Management [4]: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/1.18+Release
