All - Since we have been planning to release 0.17.8 till last week, I would suggest that we can go ahead with this release. However this release will be a non Apache release since there are several task items that needs to be done before making an Apache release.
I would suggest the following - * Move forward with 0.17.8 as a non Apache Release * Target 0.18.0 as a full Apache Release Since the task items could be long - there might be a need for some interim releases between 0.17.8 and 0.18.0 and these releases might be potentially non Apache release as well. Let me know if this plan sounds good. In the Slack most of committers have said yes to go ahead with 0.17.8 release. cheers /karthik ps: Mentors please let us know if this looks ok
