Yesterday, it was suggested on #cassandra-dev that when 3.9 is ready for release, we release 3.8 with the same code base. My plan is to force push the contents of cassandra-3.9 branch to the cassandra-3.8 branch, updating the version appropriately, so we can build/test from the 3.8 branch, as usual.
Any objections to doing this push to 3.8 today, then again when we have a green light on 3.9 release? Thanks! Michael