Hi All, According to the release calendar [1] branch cut date for Beam 2.9.0 release is 11/21/2018. Since previous release branch was cut close to the respective calendar date I'd like to propose cutting release branch for 2.9.0 on 11/21/2018. Next week is Thanksgiving holiday in US and possibly some folks will be out so we can try to produce RC1 on Monday after (11/26/2018). We can attend to current blocker JIRAs [2] in the meantime.
I'd like to volunteer to perform this release. WDYT ? Thanks, Cham [1] https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=0p73sl034k80oob7seouanigd0%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FLos_Angeles [2] https://s.apache.org/beam-2.9.0-burndown
