There was some agreement that we should create a 6.0 milestone so I'm going to begin a vote. If anyone feels that three days isn't enough time to complete testing then please just ask for more time.
I have created a signed source archive for this revision and made it available at: http://people.apache.org/~hindessm/6.0m1/ Please test these artifacts and then vote for declaring these source archives as 6.0 milestone 1, and opening up the remaining frozen code trees for general development once again. This vote will be open for at least 3 days, or until all binding votes have been cast (if earlier). If the vote is successful, binary builds from that level will be made available on the download page. Regards, Mark.