Hi folks, It's that time again--July is approaching, and with it our next major release. I've started https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ARROW/Arrow+5.0.0+Release (copied from the 4.0.0 page and updated the jira searches to 5.0.0, per usual), and we're currently showing 250 open issues for 5.0.0. We have about 4 weeks left to close out the scope--3 weeks from Friday is July 16, and I think that's when we want to be ready to cut a release candidate, just to leave enough time to get it voted on and shipped before the end of the month.
One difference this release involves Rust: since the Rust subprojects have moved off of jira, the usual confluence widgets aren't picking up any release blocking issues from Rust, nor would we be accounting for issues resolved in the release by just counting jiras or commits to apache/arrow. Any thoughts on how to make this accounting work, both for the release burndown and for the post-release announcement? Thanks, Neal
