+1 for the final release manager, looking forward to Flink 2.1. Best, Leonard
> 2025 4月 11 11:43，Ron Liu <ron9....@gmail.com> 写道： > > Hi everyone, > > The discussion has been ongoing for a long time, and there is currently 1 > RM candidate, so the final release manager of 2.1 is Ron Liu. We will do > the first release sync on April 23, 2025, at 9 am (UTC+2) and 3 pm (UTC+8). > Welcome to the meeting! > > Best regards, > Ron > > Ron Liu <ron9....@gmail.com> 于2025年3月26日周三 11:44写道： > >> Hi, David >> >> Thanks for your kind reminder, we are planning the next minor release 2.1. >> >> Thanks also to Xingtong for additional background information. >> >> Best, >> Ron >> >> Xintong Song <tonysong...@gmail.com> 于2025年3月26日周三 11:08写道： >> >>> Thanks for the kick off and volunteering as release manager, Ron. >>> >>> +1 for start preparing release 2.1 and Ron as the release manager. The >>> proposed feature freeze date sounds good to me. >>> >>> @David, >>> >>> Just to provide some background information. >>> >>> In the Flink community, we use the terminologies Major, Minor and Bugfix >>> releases, represented by the three digits in the version number >>> respectively. E.g., 1.20.1 represents Major version 1, Minor version 20 >>> and >>> Bugfix version 1. >>> >>> The major differences are: >>> 1. API compatibility: @Public APIs are guaranteed compatible across >>> different Minor and Bugfix releases of the same Major >>> version. @PublicEvolving APIs are guaranteed compatible across Bugfix >>> releases of the same Minor version. >>> 2. Bugfix releases typically only include bugfixes, but not feature / >>> improvement code changes. Major and Minor releases include both feature / >>> improvements and bugfixes. >>> >>> The Flink community applies a time-based release planning [1] for Major / >>> Minor releases. We try to deliver new features with a new release >>> (typically Minor, unless we decide to break the API compatibility with a >>> Major release) roughly every 4 months. As for bugfix releases, they are >>> usually planned on-demand. E.g., to make a critical bugfix available to >>> users, or observed significant bugfix issues have been merged for the >>> release branch. >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Xintong >>> >>> >>> [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/Time-based+releases >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 12:14 AM David Radley <david_rad...@uk.ibm.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi , >>>> I am wondering what the thinking is about calling the next release 2.1 >>>> rather than 2.0.1. This numbering implies to me you are considering a >>>> minor release rather than a point release. For example >>>> https://commons.apache.org/releases/versioning.html, >>>> >>>> Kind regards, David. >>>> >>>> >>>> From: Jark Wu <imj...@gmail.com> >>>> Date: Tuesday, 25 March 2025 at 06:52 >>>> To: dev@flink.apache.org <dev@flink.apache.org> >>>> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Planning Flink 2.1 >>>> Thanks, Ron Liu for kicking off the 2.1 release. >>>> >>>> +1 for Ron Liu to be the release manager and >>>> +1 for the feature freeze date >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> Jark >>>> >>>> On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 at 16:33, Ron Liu <ron9....@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi everyone, >>>>> With the release announcement of Flink 2.0, it's a good time to kick >>> off >>>>> discussion of the next release 2.1. >>>>> >>>>> - Release Managers >>>>> >>>>> I'd like to volunteer as one of the release managers this time. It has >>>> been >>>>> good practice to have a team of release managers from different >>>>> backgrounds, so please raise you hand if you'd like to volunteer and >>> get >>>>> involved. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> - Timeline >>>>> >>>>> Flink 2.0 has been released. With a target release cycle of 4 months, >>>>> we propose a feature freeze date of *June 21, 2025*. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> - Collecting Features >>>>> >>>>> As usual, we've created a wiki page[1] for collecting new features in >>>> 2.1. >>>>> >>>>> In the meantime, the release management team will be finalized in the >>>> next >>>>> few days, and we'll continue to create Jira Boards and Sync meetings >>>>> to make it easy for everyone to get an overview and track progress. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Best, >>>>> Ron >>>>> >>>>> [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/2.1+Release >>>>> >>>> >>>> Unless otherwise stated above: >>>> >>>> IBM United Kingdom Limited >>>> Registered in England and Wales with number 741598 >>>> Registered office: Building C, IBM Hursley Office, Hursley Park Road, >>>> Winchester, Hampshire SO21 2JN >>>> >>> >>
