Hello project! We're down to a single ticket blocking the beta 1 release, which is a huge milestone. Thanks everyone for engaging and remaining patient while we navigated this first major release process in quite awhile; we're learning quite a bit and paving the way for a much smoother process in the future. Further, there are a lot of points of view on the project and opinions about the relative urgency of a release and how we balance things - thanks everyone for engaging professionally and in good faith on these topics.
We have an apache blog post and some marketing materials that are refined and largely approved by the pmc as of a couple days ago (this is one of the few things we plan to keep to private discussion as recommended by the ASF), and Melissa, Constantia et. al. are currently working on getting interviews set up with a variety of journalists over the next week or so about the beta, with a focus on a call to action for users to grab the beta and test it out. I propose we hold off on cutting and releasing the beta in favor of coordinating with those efforts to maximize the impact we have on timing of this beta release. Any concerns or hesitations with this approach? ~Josh