Dear devs and users, Today was the kickoff meeting for Flink 1.18 release cycle. I'd like to share the info synced in the meeting.
Meeting schedule: Zoom will be used with a 40 mins limit for each meeting. That should be fine for now. We will check it again if we have an issue with the time limit later. Release cycle will start bi-weekly and switch to weekly after the feature freeze. Feature freezing date: July 11, 2023 Retrospective of 1.17 release: There are many valuable thoughts and suggestions from previous release managers[1]. Some of them are summarized as following: - [Attention] Backports/merges without PRs will break master/release branches. Kindly remind, every Flink developer, please pay attention to avoid doing it. - It is encouraged to create release testing tasks in advance, label them properly, and finish them earlier, not necessarily wait to do it at the end of the release cycle. - A non-votable rc0 will be released in the future for developers to validate the release. - Some jira tickets have been created for 1.17 release that could be used as the starting point to build a standard release pipeline. The release process documented on the wiki page could be turned into a list of Jira tasks (Jira template) in the future. Daily work divisions: In general, every release manager will be working on all daily issues. For some major tasks, in order to make sure there will at least always be someone to take care of them, they have been assigned to specific release managers[2]. If you need support in each of these areas, please don't hesitate to contact us. 1.18 Release page: Flink 1.18 release has been kicked off today. We'd like to invite you to update your development plan on the release page[2]. The next release sync up meeting will be on April 18, 2023. Please feel free to join us! Zoom meeting: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/79158702091?pwd=8CXPqxMzbabWkma5b0qFXI1IcLbxBh.1 Best regards, Konstantin, Sergey, Qingsheng, and Jing [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/1.17+Release [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/1.18+Release
