Now that this is out of the way, I propose we start rolling RC2 immediately. A number of critical changes have already been backported to 1.9.x, and a few are still waiting in STATUS.
Our pre-release soak period starts today. Currently I see nothing slated for RC2 that would require a restart of the soak, only the standard 1-week extension. Assuming we get RC2 out the door in the next 2-3 weeks and don't find anything horrible in the code during the soak, we can tentatively expect to release 1.9.0 on 15th June. -- Brane
