To update on this, after 7 days we are still waiting for enough binding votes on the IPMC mailing list thread [1] to be able to officially release this package.
--dave [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b5565c5d0ab8541193fd021876185f86e5f1f09b8995d7990d8bd921@%3Cgeneral.incubator.apache.org%3E
