[SUMMARY] Flink 1.16 release sync of 2022-08-30

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

I would like to give you a brief update of the Flink 1.16 release sync
meating of 2022-08-30.

*Since the feature freeze(9th of August 2022, end of business CEST), we
have started release-testing[1] in the last three weeks. We're almost done
with half of the test issues. The remaining test issues are also expected
to be finished in the next few days.*

*Currently, there are still some critical/blocker stability tickets[2] that
need to be resolved. We will cut 1.16 release 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 6th of September 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