[SUMMARY] Flink 1.16 release sync of 2022-07-26

[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 2022-07-26.

Currently, we have 17 features that have been completed for this release
and 35 features are still expected to make it. We only have 2 weeks
remaining until the feature freeze (at 2022-08-09).

We currently have two blocker tickets that are being worked on. Many thanks
to these contributors and reviewers.

Next, we also have some critical test stability tickets[1] that are not
picked up. We need to guarantee the CI stable before the release branch
cut. You can either directly assign it to yourself (don't forget to mark it
as In Progress) or ping me (@Huang Xingbo) to get it assigned to you. Your
help is much appreciated.

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 2nd of August at 9am
CEST/ 3pm China Standard Time / 7am UTC. The link can also be found on the
first page.

On behalf of all the release managers,

best regards,
Xingbo

[1]
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%20labels%20%3D%20test-stability%20AND%20assignee%20in%20(EMPTY)%20ORDER%20BY%20updated%20DESC%2C%20summary%20DESC