Hello, I spoke with Julie and I agree to take over the release manager duties for this release. I will shortly astart the vote.
In the meanwhile, here are the release notes that Julie had already prepared for review: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/LUCENE/Release+Notes+9.4.1 On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 8:54 PM Julie Tibshirani <juliet...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am now preparing for a bugfix release from branch branch_9_4 > > Please observe the normal rules for committing to this branch: > > * Before committing to the branch, reply to this thread and argue > why the fix needs backporting and how long it will take. > * All issues accepted for backporting should be marked with 9.4.1 > in GitHub, and issues that should delay the release must be marked as > Blocker > * All patches that are intended for the branch should first be committed > to the unstable branch, merged into the stable branch, and then into > the current release branch. > * Only issues with Milestone version 9.4.1 and priority "Blocker" will > delay > a release candidate build. > > As I mentioned yesterday, I plan to merge this important fix into > branch_9_4: https://github.com/apache/lucene/pull/11861. I didn't hear > from people about other changes that were important to backport and > release. So my plan is to start building a release candidate > soon, hopefully having it ready in a few hours, by the end of my day. > > Julie >
