Hello devs, I'm going on an extended absence, through Oct 23. Would anyone care to stand in as release manager for 1.1.7 while I'm away? Given 1.1.6 went out on Sept 5, 1.1.7 RC's should begin around Sept 26th in order to retain our targeted monthly cadence. The overall process is documented [0], and I have my own almost-but-not-quite-scripted notes [1] for creating a candidate.
In terms of effort, it usually works out to be a couple hours for tracking down in-flight tickets, updating JIRA, validating the compatibility report &c, and then another couple hours of watching maven and pushing bits to generate the RC. If no takers, I'll make its release a priority upon my return in late October. Thanks, Nick [0]: http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#releasing [1]: https://gist.github.com/ndimiduk/924db7f5ee75baa67802
