This vote has ended. Apologies for letting it sit open for so long while we answered questions about the voting process and worked to increase our podling project management committee membership.
The vote was not successful, with 2 +1 votes and 1 -1 vote. We will work to resolve outstanding packaging issues and release checking automation to make it easier to review release candidates and I will open a new vote for an RC.2 at that time. Thanks for your testing and feedback, Richard and Benjamin.