[SUMMARY] Flink 1.19 Release Sync 11/14/2023

[Lincoln Lee <li...@gmail.com>]

Hi devs and users,

Yesterday was the first release sync of Flink 1.19, I’d like to share the
summary:

- Sync meeting
We switched back to google meet because there's some account limitation for
zoom on some region and the google meet is available when creator is not
online.
The meeting will happen every 2 weeks and switch to weekly after the
feature freeze.

- Feature freezing date
Jan 26, 2024

- Features & issues tracking
The community has collected many features on the 1.19 wiki page[1] and it
is encouraged to continuously updating the page for contributors, also
there exists large amounts of jira issues[2].
Please be aware that, for all `@Public` APIs that are intended to be
changed / removed in release 2.0, the deprecation work should be completed
in 1.19.
Another important thing is that since a lot of the work in 1.19 is also
related to the 2.0 release, tagging related issues with '2.0-related' tag
will make it easier for the 2.0 release managers to track progress.

- Daily work divisions
In general, every release manager will be working on all daily issues. For
some major tasks, in order to make sure there will at least always be
someone to take care of them, they have been assigned to specific release
managers[1]. If you need support in each of these areas, please don't
hesitate to contact us.

- Blockers
  - FLINK-31449 Remove DeclarativeSlotManager related logic @Xintong will
track it
  - FLINK-33531 Nightly Python fails @Dian Fu will look at this
  - FLINK-18356 flink-table-planner Exit code 137 on ci pipeline @Matthias
pr reviewing

- Retrospective of 1.18 release
Thanks for the efforts from previous release managers and also several
valuable thoughts and suggestions:
  - The release process now has a jira template, which will make the work
easier for the new release managers, and the overall steps will still
documented on the wiki page and continuously updated in the next releases.
We'll also be looking at automation to continue to streamline releases.
  - 1.18 experienced relatively long release testing, We found that finding
volunteers to join the testing after rc is ready can be a long wait. So in
1.19 we will try to find volunteers earlier(we added a new column:
volunteers for testing on the wiki page[1]), and before release testing,
let the feature developers describe the detailed testing steps, so that
subsequent testing can go faster.
  - The documentation build and flink-docker CI have been migrated to
GHA(Github actions), there's still a lot of work to be done to migrate the
CI pipeline from azure to GHA[3], and welcome to join in for our goal of
improving the experience of our contributors!

The next release sync will be on November 28th, 2023.

Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/vcx-arzs-trv

[1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/1.19+Release
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=592
[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-27075

Best regards,
Yun, Jing, Martijn and Lincoln

Re: [SUMMARY] Flink 1.19 Release Sync 11/14/2023

[Matthias Pohl <ma...@aiven.io.INVALID>]

Thanks for the update, Lincoln.
A small remark: The appreciation for fixing FLINK-18356 [1] should be sent
to Yunhong Zheng. :)

Now, let's see and hope that the problem doesn't appear again.

Best,
Matthias

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-18356

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 2:41 AM Lincoln Lee <li...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi devs,
>
> This is the summary of the second release sync of Flink 1.19:
>
> - Features & issues tracking
> There're 9 weeks until the feature freeze date, so far we've had 21 flips
> and the status looks good. It is encouraged to continuously updating the
> 1.19 wiki page[1] for contributors.
>   - GitHub Actions Migration is under discussion (FLIP-396[2]), volunteers
> are welcome!
>   - The flink-shaded[3] version 1.18.0 will be released soon, thanks
> Sergey for driving this!
>
> - Blockers
>   - [new] external connectors compilation failure cause by FLINK-25857
> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-25857>, now back to the ml
> discussion[4]
>   - [not a blocker] FLINK-31449 Remove DeclarativeSlotManager related
> logic - changed to major
>   - [closed] FLINK-33531 Nightly Python fails - thanks Xingbo & Dian for
> fixing this
>   - [closed] FLINK-18356 flink-table-planner Exit code 137 on ci pipeline
> - thanks @Matthias for getting it done
>
> - Sync meeting
> The Google Meet has been updated to: https://meet.google.com/vcx-arzs-trv.
> As suggested by Xintong, we encourage attendees to fill out the topics to
> be discussed at the bottom of 1.19 wiki page[1] a day in advance to make it
> easier for everyone to understand the background of the topic.
>
> The next release sync will be on December 12th, 2023.
>
> [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/1.19+Release
> [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread/h4cmv7l3y8mxx2t435dmq4ltco4sbrgb
> [3] https://lists.apache.org/thread/gkly9to8vnx9wrp7tvfl39s6tm4xdc9p
> [4] https://lists.apache.org/thread/h6nkgth838dlh5s90sd95zd6hlsxwx57
>
> Best regards,
> Yun, Jing, Martijn and Lincoln
>

Fwd: [SUMMARY] Flink 1.19 Release Sync 11/14/2023

[Lincoln Lee <li...@gmail.com>]

Hi devs,

This is the summary of the second release sync of Flink 1.19:

- Features & issues tracking
There're 9 weeks until the feature freeze date, so far we've had 21 flips
and the status looks good. It is encouraged to continuously updating the
1.19 wiki page[1] for contributors.
  - GitHub Actions Migration is under discussion (FLIP-396[2]), volunteers
are welcome!
  - The flink-shaded[3] version 1.18.0 will be released soon, thanks Sergey
for driving this!

- Blockers
  - [new] external connectors compilation failure cause by FLINK-25857
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-25857>, now back to the ml
discussion[4]
  - [not a blocker] FLINK-31449 Remove DeclarativeSlotManager related logic
- changed to major
  - [closed] FLINK-33531 Nightly Python fails - thanks Xingbo & Dian for
fixing this
  - [closed] FLINK-18356 flink-table-planner Exit code 137 on ci pipeline -
thanks @Matthias for getting it done

- Sync meeting
The Google Meet has been updated to: https://meet.google.com/vcx-arzs-trv.
As suggested by Xintong, we encourage attendees to fill out the topics to
be discussed at the bottom of 1.19 wiki page[1] a day in advance to make it
easier for everyone to understand the background of the topic.

The next release sync will be on December 12th, 2023.

[1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/1.19+Release
[2] https://lists.apache.org/thread/h4cmv7l3y8mxx2t435dmq4ltco4sbrgb
[3] https://lists.apache.org/thread/gkly9to8vnx9wrp7tvfl39s6tm4xdc9p
[4] https://lists.apache.org/thread/h6nkgth838dlh5s90sd95zd6hlsxwx57

Best regards,
Yun, Jing, Martijn and Lincoln