[ANNOUNCE] Weekly community update #40

[Till Rohrmann <tr...@apache.org>]

Dear community,

this is the weekly community update thread #40. Please post any news and
updates you want to share with the community to this thread.

# Discussing feature freeze for Flink 1.7

The community is currently discussing the feature freeze for Flink 1.7 [1].
The 22nd of October is currently proposed.

# Discussing dropping flink-storm

The community is currently discussing to drop Flink's Storm compatibility
because it heavily relies on Flink's legacy mode [2].

# Flip-23: Model serving

There is again some activity for Flip-23 (model serving) [3]. If you want
to help with this effort, then please join the mailing list discussion.

[1]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Feature-freeze-for-Flink-1-7-tp24378.html
[2]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Dropping-flink-storm-tp24376.html
[3]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-FLIP-23-Model-Serving-tp20260.html

Cheers,
Till