Hi everyone, I would like to discuss whether the Flink community should maintain reusable Agent Skills for community work and, if so, where they should live.
AI agents can now handle much of the evidence gathering, checking, and drafting involved in a release. This could reduce repetitive work for release managers and make more frequent patch releases practical, while release decisions, votes, and signing remain with people. How can release skills become reliable? The approach is to start with the current official release process and study at least ten past real releases when designing a skill. Problems found in past and future releases can then become checks in the skill, used during preparation and verification to avoid repeating the same mistakes. As a POC, I have drafted two skills [1]: flink-release and verify-flink-release. Together, they are designed to cover the full patch-release workflow, from gathering evidence before the first dev@ discussion through post-publication follow-up. So far, the Discovery stage has been refined and generated three [DISCUSS] emails for Flink 1.20.6 [2], 2.2.2 [3], and 2.3.1 [4]; all three were sent to dev@. These releases will help test and improve the later stages. Future skills could cover major and minor releases and other Flink projects, such as Flink CDC, the Flink Kubernetes Operator, and connectors. Troubleshooting skills could also help Flink users diagnose problems. More background is in the Project purpose and direction document [5]. The POC currently lives in my own repository. I would particularly welcome feedback on two questions: 1. Should the Flink community maintain these skills? If not, I can continue maintaining them in my own repository. 2. If so, where should they live? I favor a dedicated community skills repository so similar workflows, especially connector releases, can be reused across projects. Keeping each skill in its project's code repository is another option. Best, Rui [1] https://github.com/1996fanrui/flink-skills [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread/mjmb5hfgnxzy7081dk7oqbj4znv5fzoy [3] https://lists.apache.org/thread/tzklqoy343q2nfm7kwzbgd8kpjgtq0t9 [4] https://lists.apache.org/thread/x68b0xvfxv78s7d1pq72r92y71b80k9r [5] https://github.com/1996fanrui/flink-skills/blob/main/PROJECT_PURPOSE_AND_DIRECTION.md
