Shouldn't this be a discuss thread? I'm also happy to see more release managers and agree the time is getting close, but we should see what features are in progress and see how close things are and propose a date based on that. Cutting a branch to soon just creates more work for committers to push to more branches. http://spark.apache.org/versioning-policy.html mentioned the code freeze and release branch cut mid-august.
Tom On Friday, July 6, 2018, 11:47:35 AM CDT, Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com> wrote: FYI 6 mo is coming up soon since the last release. We will cut the branch and code freeze on Aug 1st in order to get 2.4 out on time.