[SUMMARY] Flink 1.17 Release Sync 12/13/2022

[Leonard Xu <xb...@gmail.com>]

Hi devs and users,

I’d like to share the highlights about the 1.17 release sync on 12/13/2022.

- Release tracking page:
     -  1.17 development is moving forward [1], we have 5 weeks remaining
     - @committers Please continuously update the the progress in the 1.17 page

- Externalized Connectors :
      - flink-connector-aws v4.0.0 released
      - flink-connector-pulsar v3.0.0 started the VOTE
      - flink-connector-kafka PR is reviewing

- Blockers:
    - Blockers FLINK-28766 and FLINK-29461 have been FIXED
    - FLINK-29405 - InputFormatCacheLoaderTest is unstable OPEN 
      Qingsheng will have a look at the PR
    - FLINK-26974 - Python EmbeddedThreadDependencyTests.test_add_python_file failed on azure OPEN 
      Xingbo is working on this
    - FLINK-18356 - flink-table-planner Exit code 137 returned from process REOPENED 
      Leonard will ping Godfrey to take a look
    - FLINK-27916 - HybridSourceReaderTest.testReader failed with AssertionError REOPENED
      Martijn will ping Thomas once more

- How to have monitoring and quality control for the externalized connectors? 
  Martijn will make a proposal and open a dev discussion.

- Will the feature freeze date be affected by COVID and Spring Festival holiday?   
  Leonard will discuss with Chinese devs firstly and then make a proposal if needed before the next release sync.

The next release sync will be on December 27th, 2022, feel free to join us  if you are interested!

Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/wcx-fjbt-hhz
Dial-in: https://tel.meet/wcx-fjbt-hhz?pin=1940846765126  

Best regards,
Martijn, Qingsheng, Matthias and Leonard 

[1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/1.17+Release