+1 on the more frequent, predictable and secure releases. Having less manual steps would make releases more charming for community members 😎
BR, G On Thu, Oct 22, 2026 at 9:49 AM Gyula Fóra <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Martijn! > > This sounds great, +1, would be nice to cut down all the manual work > in our release processes and make it smoother :) > > Cheers > Gyula > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2026 at 9:30 AM Martijn Visser <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > During last week's Community over Code conference in Glasgow, organized > by > > the ASF, one of the tracks was about the new Apache Trusted Releases [1] > > tooling. I can't find a new public source except where they announced a > > second Alpha [2], but during the conference they said that it's ready to > be > > used. > > > > I'd like to volunteer to try this new process with a new release of the > > Flink-Kafka connector, which is overdue for a new release. Going through > > this process would allow me to document the things on our Wiki on how > this > > would work for Flink. > > The ASF is ultimately building towards automated releases, and I'd like > the > > Flink community to also release more frequently. I think this is a > missing > > piece for us to get started with. > > > > Looking forward to your thoughts. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Martijn > > > > [1] https://releases.apache.org/ > > [2] > > > https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/apache-trusted-releases-platform-begins-second-alpha >
