Folks Happy new year everyone. I hope you all had a good recharging time off during holiday. I want to bring our attention and focus to getting the 4.3 release out the door. While our scheduled RC date is this Friday 1/10 but we still have many open blocker and critical. Please review your backlog of issues and bring them to resolution ASAP and provide a "Due Date" in the bug. We need to absolutely make sure upgrades are working. If you encounter upgrade issue please file them as blockers. I will escalate all current upgrade issues to blocker.
For the most recent release status please visit the 4.3 Release Dashboard [1]. I am following up on individual issues directly in JIRA so do watch JIRA emails [1] http://s.apache.org/dFk Thanks Animesh
