+1 -- Ashish Vijaywargiya
David E Jones wrote:
Today is the day we have discussed for a while! A lot of improvements and fixes have gone in over the last few weeks, but it is important to remember that the release branch is primarily time-based and is a "line in the sand" as it were to begin the effort of stabilizing a specific code base so that end-users who want stability over features have that option. Some things make it in, and other things don't make it, and that is true no matter when we draw the line (but we don't want to delay it forever). What we have in place it a HUGE improvement over the release4.0 branch, and that is the most important point to keep in mind.Along with that there is a planned press release coordinated with the Apache Software Foundation Public Relations Committee (that's a mouthful! no wonder we use acronyms like: ASF PRC) for tomorrow morning (Wed 15 April).That said, the target date/time for the release branch is later tonight (and when I say tonight I mean according to USA time, just to clarify). To follow the date pattern we have discussed and make it clearly a date I'm thinking of the actual name for the branch directory to be "release200904" (and please feel free to comment on that if you think something else is better).However, that I will only do that IFF we have a positive vote for the release, hence this message!Please vote:[+1] Create the release branch tonight, April 14th (it will be April 15th for GMT-0)[+0] Abstain [-1] Do not create the release branch tonightPlease remember that everyone is free to (and encouraged to!) vote, but only the PMC votes are binding.Thanks to everyone who has made this possible with amazing contributions over the last 2 years, and a heightened activity in recent weeks and months to make this a spectacular release.-David
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