I thought you had already volunteered actually, but yes +1

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Steve Rowe <[email protected]> wrote:
> On #lucene IRC, Robert Muir wrote "i'm not RM this time"
>
> I volunteer to be the 4.1 RM.
>
> Steve
>
> On Jan 11, 2013, at 7:50 AM, Erick Erickson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> P.S. Let's give dedicated souls the weekend to get stuff in for 4.1 if they 
>> want and cut the first RC early next week....
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Erick Erickson <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> I'll take are of SOLR-4112 this morning, probably create another JIRA to 
>> track unit tests. There aren't any today and I have evidence from the field 
>> that it makes DIH usable so....
>>
>> Erick
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Jack Krupansky <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> The window of Monday through Wednesday sounds like a great target. Nothing 
>> says that the first RC has to be final. If whoever is doing the branch wants 
>> to do it on Monday rather than Tuesday, fine. If one or more of these nasty 
>> "blockers" gets fixed on Tuesday, we should still be open to a re-spin to 
>> put quality over a mere day or two of delay. But draw a hard line on 
>> Wednesday.
>>
>> -- Jack Krupansky
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Mark Miller
>> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 3:36 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: 4.1 release
>>
>>
>> Saying tomorrow without any date that gives anyone any time to do anything 
>> is out of nowhere to me. People in Europe and east of that will wake up and 
>> find out, oh today. While pressure has been building towards a release, no 
>> one has proposed a date for a cutoff. I think that is always only fair. I 
>> think that if you were desperate to cut off to blockers tomorrow, you should 
>> have called for that last week.
>>
>> Robert Muir's short term releases are not threatened by allowing people to 
>> plan and execute a release together. You can take that too far and do damage 
>> from the opposite direction. Giving people time to tie things up with a real 
>> deadline is only fair. We all know a nebulous deadline is not conducive to 
>> finishing up work.
>>
>> I think all releases should have a known date that we agree on that gives 
>> developers some time to finish what they are working on or what they believe 
>> is important for the release. At a minimum there should be a few days for 
>> this. A weekend involved only seems fair. This doesn't have to be a long 
>> time, but it should not require we file blockers and just seems like a 
>> friendly way to develop together.
>>
>> Monday is fine by me if others buy into it.
>>
>> Otherwise, we have taken 4 or 5 months for 4.1. Let's not drag it out 
>> another month. But let's not do the reverse and release it tonight. The 
>> sensible approach always seems like we should plan out some target dates on 
>> the list - dates that actually give devs a chance to respond to - and then 
>> follow through on those dates.
>>
>> - Mark
>>
>> On Jan 10, 2013, at 3:26 PM, Steve Rowe <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Okay - I can see your logic, Mark, but this is not even close to out of 
>> nowhere.  You yourself have been vocal about making a 4.1 release for a 
>> couple weeks now.
>>
>> I agree with Robert Muir that we should be promoting short turnaround 
>> releases.  If it doesn't make this release, it'll make the next one, which 
>> will come out in a relatively short span of time.  In this model, Blocker 
>> issues are the drivers, not "Fix Version".    If people want stuff in the 
>> release, they should mark their issue as Blocker.
>>
>> How about a compromise - next Monday we branch and only allow Blockers to 
>> block the release?
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> On Jan 10, 2013, at 3:08 PM, Mark Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> -1 from me - I don't like not giving people a target date to clean things up 
>> by. No one has given a proposed date to try and tie things up by - just 
>> calling 'hike is tomorrow' out of nowhere doesn't seem right to me.
>>
>> We have a lot of people working on this over a lot of timezones. I think we 
>> should do the right thing and give everyone at least a few days and a 
>> weekend to finish getting their issues into 4.1.
>>
>> - Mark
>>
>> On Jan 10, 2013, at 2:36 PM, Steve Rowe <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to start sooner than next Tuesday.
>>
>> I propose to make the branch tomorrow, and only allow Blocker issues to hold 
>> up the release after that.
>>
>> A release candidate should then be possible by the middle of next week.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> On Jan 10, 2013, at 2:27 PM, Mark Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Jan 10, 2013, at 2:12 PM, Steve Rowe <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to release soon.  What else blocks this?
>>
>> I think we should toss out a short term date (next tuesday?) for anyone to 
>> get in what they need for 4.1.
>>
>> Then just consider blockers after branching?
>>
>> Then release?
>>
>> Objections, better ideas?
>>
>> I think we should give a bit of time for people to finish up what's in 
>> flight or fix any blockers. Then we should heighten testing and allow for 
>> any new blockers, and then kick it out. If we need to do a 4.2 shortly 
>> after, so be it.
>>
>> - Mark
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