Devs, I've made an initial attempt at building a 1.4.4-rc1 release. The src tar, signature, and md5sum are available at https://people.apache.org/~mdrob/
The tar was generated from the 1.4.4rc1 tag by running "git archive -o accumulo-1.4.4-rc1-src.tar.gz 1.4.4rc1" There is no vote yet because my keys are currently worthless for the apache web of trust. but if others can take a look at the artifact and provide feedback, then we can get the ball rolling on a release. Thanks, Mike
