Hi Martijn, I've seen colleagues go through the current release process, and it is indeed very manual. This sounds promising. +1, and thanks for driving this, Martijn.
It would also be useful to have a set of Skills accompanying this. That matches what was discussed here: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/fk34zv75zm16kvnv531bgx4v1b7knnbj Kind regards, Gustavo On Fri, 23 Oct 2026 at 14:10, Ferenc Csaky via dev <[email protected]> wrote: > +1, I am planning to do the same with the next Pulsar connector release in > a > couple days myself. > > Best, > Ferenc > > > > On Thursday, October 22nd, 2026 at 11:08, Gabor Somogyi < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > +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 > > > > > >
