In one of the previous emails, Nicholas mentioned that we are planning to
roll Ratis release once Duong's verification is done.
If the Ratis community is planning to release 3.1 soon, I would like to
call the Ozone release as 1.5.0 (based on master), which includes a bunch
of key performance optimi
Doing the next release from master makes sense to me given the increased
focus on bug fixes and stability. I don't think I have a preference on
calling it 1.4.1 or 1.5.0. It might be strange to have an ozone-1.4 branch
and then an ozone-1.4.1 branch that is not based off it, but that's not a
big de
