[ANNOUNCE] Weekly community update #42

[Till Rohrmann]

Dear community,

this is the weekly community update thread #42. Please post any news and updates you want to share with the community to this thread.

# Discussion about Flink SQL integration with Hive

Xuefu started a discussion about how to integrate Flink SQL with the Hive ecosystem [1]. If that's of your interest, then please join the discussion.

# Flink intro slide set

Fabian started to prepare a Flink intro slide set for the community [2]. If you want to help with the preparation of the slide set, reach out to him.

# Discussion how to share state between tasks

Thomas started a discussion about how to share state/information between multiple tasks of an operator [3]. That way it would be possible to control the ingestion rate of sources depending how advanced they are wrt event time, for example. 

# Releasing Flink 1.5.5 and 1.6.2

Chesnay kicked off a discussion about releasing the next bug fix releases for Flink 1.5 and 1.6 [4]. He is currently creating the RCs which will be published on the ML for testing soon. Please help the community with testing them.

[1] http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Integrate-Flink-SQL-well-with-Hive-ecosystem-td24538.html#a24568

[2] http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/Creating-a-slide-set-for-a-Flink-intro-talk-td24605.html#a24643

[3] http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/Sharing-state-between-subtasks-td24489.html

[4] http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Release-1-5-5-and-1-6-2-td24626.html

Cheers,

Till