Our release lifecycle docs¹ imply that we can release alphas despite flaky test failures, which means we can cut and vote on a 4.1-alpha1 release today. This is also on the presumption that point (2) on our Cassandra CI Process docs² does not apply to pre-beta releases.
Is there an appetite for this? Any objections? Any tickets about to land folk want us to wait on? regards, Mick 1) https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/Release+Lifecycle 2) https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/Cassandra+CI+Process
