> I hate that I need to voice this opinion, … I think it is wonderful that you do! There needs to be more of this, without fear :-)
> Please correct me if I'm wrong here, but a RC is something that could be a > GA release and due to the outstanding issues we don't meet that criteria. > Irrespective of how those issues get resolved. > I do not believe we relabel RC releases into GA releases. A new release is cut and voted on for the GA. Interestingly, the main issue at hand could be addressed in the release scripts, so the exact same SHA of 4.0-rc1 could in theory be cut into a GA release. (Though it looks like CASSANDRA-16391 is feasible.) And we are not looking at impacting QA or touching any compatibility aspect of the code.
