I have pushed back the generation of the first release candidate by a
day. This should give us time to disable the automatic collection of
index stats in 10.8.1, as discussed in this companion thread:
http://old.nabble.com/opinions-on-a-less-aggressive-release-of-the-istats-feature--to31129980.html#a31143697
I am now planning to create the branch and post the first release
candidate tomorrow. If you would like an improvement to appear in
10.8.1, please have your work checked in before 5:00 am San Francisco
time on Tuesday March 15.
Thanks,
-Rick