[SUMMARY] Flink 1.16 release sync of 2022-08-16

[Xingbo Huang <hx...@gmail.com>]

Hi everyone,

I would like to give you a brief update of the Flink 1.16 release sync
meating of 2022-08-16.

*In the last Wednesday(9th of August 2022, end of business CEST), we
announced the feature freeze. And after that, we have started release
testing work. I have created an umbrella release testing JIRA[1] and many
child JIRAs about new features have been created. If your added new
features need cross-team testing, you can also create a child JIRA. We will
help find volunteers to test the related feature. At meantime, welcome to
volunteer to help test our new features in release 1.16. Your help is much
appreciated.*

*Currently, there are still some critical/blocker stability tickets[2] that
need to be resolved. We will cut 1.16 branch once our CI is stable and
release-testing work has been finished.*

For more information about Flink release 1.16, you can refer to
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/1.16+Release

The next Flink release sync will be on Tuesday the 23rd of August at 9am
CEST/ 3pm China Standard Time / 7am UTC. The link could be found on the
following page
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/1.16+Release#id-1.16Release-Syncmeeting
.

On behalf of all the release managers,

best regards,
Xingbo

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-28896
[2]
https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20FLINK%20AND%20issuetype%20%3D%20Bug%20AND%20status%20in%20(Open%2C%20%22In%20Progress%22%2C%20Reopened)%20AND%20priority%20in%20(Blocker%2C%20Critical)%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%201.16.0%20ORDER%20BY%20summary%20ASC%2C%20priority%20DESC