release?

[Stefan Eissing via dev]

How are people feeling about another release? 

Since I have tons of bugfixes in 2.4.x and some pending features to port back, 
I offer to RM this.

We have 5 items in 2.4.x/STATUS which lack votes. Would be nice if people could 
find time to look into those where they feel comfortable to vote on.

Cheers,
Stefan

Mailing list threading improvements

[Christofer Dutz]

TL;DR: We’re updating how auto-generated email from Github will be
threaded on your mailing lists. If you want to keep the old defaults,
details are below.

We’re pleased to let you know that we’re tweaking the way that auto-
generated email from Github will appear on your mailing lists. This
will lead to more human-readable subject lines, and the ability of most
modern mail clients to correctly thread discussions originating on
Github.

Background: Many project mailing lists receive email auto-generated by
Github. The way that the subject lines are crafted leads to messages
from the same topic not being threaded together by most mail clients.
We’re fixing that.

The way that these messages are threaded is defined by a file -
.asf.yml - in your git repositories. We’re changing the way that it
will work by default if you don’t choose settings. If you’re happy for
us to make this change, don’t do anything - the change will happen on
October the 1st 2023.

Details of the current default, as well as the proposed changes, are on
the following page, along with instructions on how to keep your current
settings, if you prefer:

https://community.apache.org/contributors/mailing-lists.html#configuring-the-subject-lines-of-the-emails-being-sent

Please copy d...@community.apache.org
on any feedback.

Chris, on behalf of the Comdev PMC