All - As Kevin Risden has resolved the Jetty upgrade and challenges with Hadoop dependency as well as moved the last JIRA out to 1.4.0 - we no longer have any outstanding JIRAs for the 1.3.0 release.
We did branch a couple weeks ago in order to prepare for this and I think it is time to cut our first RC for the 1.3.0 release. I will move ahead with the process but feel free to holler stop if need be. :) thanks, --larry