Hi Jark, Thanks for driving it! For point 2, since we are developing 1.18 now, does it make sense to update the roadmap this time while we are releasing 1.18? This discussion thread will be focusing on the Flink 2.0 roadmap, as you mentioned previously. WDYT?
Best regards, Jing On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 3:31 PM Jark Wu <imj...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
