The previous thread¹ on when to freeze 5.0 landed on freezing the first week of August, with a waiver in place for TCM and Accord to land later (but before October).
With JDK8 now dropped and SAI and UCS merged, the only expected 5.0 work that hasn't landed is Vector search (CEP-30). Are there any objections to a waiver on Vector search? All the groundwork: SAI and the vector type; has been merged, with all remaining work expected to land in August. I'm keen to freeze and see us shift gears – there's already SO MUCH in 5.0 and a long list of flakies. It takes time and patience to triage and identify the bugs that hit us before GA. The freeze is about being "mostly feature complete", so we have room for things before our first beta (precedence is to ask). If we hope for a GA by December, account for the 6 weeks turnaround time for cutting and voting on one alpha, one beta, and one rc release, and the quiet period that August is, we really only have September and October left. I already feel this is asking a bit of a miracle from us given how 4.1 went (and I'm hoping I will be proven wrong). In addition, are there any objections to cutting an 5.0-alpha1 release as soon as we freeze? This is on the understanding vector, tcm and accord will become available in later alphas. Originally the discussion¹ was waiting for Accord for alpha1, but a number of folk off-list have requested earlier alphas to help with testing. ¹) https://lists.apache.org/thread/9c5cnn57c7oqw8wzo3zs0dkrm4f17lm3
