The next step in preparing for the upcoming release is to assess the state of the issue tracker.
Would people please review the list of unscheduled issues. This is something that all developers can assist with, not just the committers. http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=12310043 If you see anything that is vital and can be realistically achieved for the release, then please provide its issue number and a committer will Edit it to set the "Fix Version" to 0.8-dev. Then next step will then be to review the list of scheduled issues to be more realistic. If you can add comments or patches to an issue then please do so. -David