Committers, please do not commit to the master branch until further notice.
I am making the release from a branch (branch-1.0) but I hope to be able to merge the commits to the master branch *with the same commit hashes* when the release is complete. That will not be possible if someone has committed to master in the mean time. Why release from a branch? If the RC fails, it allows me to roll back commits and generally tidy things up. (The master branch in Apache git instance does not allow people to change history, but other branches do.) Julian
