Before we vote, how about we rebase the release/9.0 to the latest master? There still have many difference between master and release/9.0:
If we rebase, we would have to update the release notes and related documentation again. You have to freeze the code somewhere; there will always be things that are omitted from the release that will have to wait until the next release. I would vote that we not rebase the release branch. I think we should keep it as stable as possible and only bring in bug fixes.
The main concern that I have is that there has been no testing or qualification of the release. It was frozen but never verified
Greg
