1.17 release

[ptabor]

On behalf of https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd wanted to check perspectives for zap-1.17 release.

etcd is currently depending on: go.uber.org/zap v1.16.1-0.20210329175301-c23abee72d19.

The unstable dependency was taken due to 89e3820 (grpclog.LoggerV2).
Now we are preparing etcd release 3.5.0 that is needed to unblock kubernetes 1.22.

The etcd release is tracked by: etcd-io/etcd#12970

[abhinav]

Hey there! We're not opposed to tagging a new release but we might have to back out #897 if we do that right now.

We have someone working on a version of #782 to address some of the outstanding issues. Until that's ready, though, we can't tag a release that includes the new Clock interface (added in #897) because we expect the work in #782 to affect that interface.

CC @prashantv

[ptabor]

Thank you for the response. I think we are talking about ~2 weeks timeline for promoting 3.5.0-beta to 3.5.0 at which state we should have stable dependencies.

[hexfusion]

Hi @abhinav @ptabor following up on this any chance for a release this week?

[abhinav]

Hey @hexfusion. @prashantv and I decided last week that if we could get our reworked version of #782 in by today, we'd ship that. Otherwise, we'll back out #897 for this release (because it's getting changed in #948).

We'll try to tag the release today.