I agree with Sanjiva. In fact I'd go further and say that the RC's should be on a branch which will ultimately end in 1.0 (or eventually 1.0.n). Compare how Mozilla managed their releases at http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html. Of course Axis is tiny compared to Mozilla, but why not copy a process which seems to work well?
So, let's put this to the vote: "create a branch for 1.0 and allow only agreed changes to be committed to that branch". Here's my +1. Glyn
