[VOTE] Release of Apache Phoenix 4.7.0-HBase-0.98 RC3

[James Taylor <ja...@apache.org>]

Hello Everyone,

This is a call for a vote on Apache Phoenix 4.7.0-HBase-0.98 RC3. This is
the next minor release of Phoenix 4, compatible with Apache HBase 0.98+.
The release includes both a source-only release and a convenience binary
release.

This release has feature parity with our other pending 4.7.0 releases and
includes the following improvements:
- ACID transaction support (beta) [1]
- Statistics improvements [2][3][4]
- Performance improvements [5][6][7]
- 200+ other fixes/enhancements [8]

The previous RC was sunk due to PHOENIX-2666, PHOENIX-2711, PHOENIX-2713
all of which have been fixed in this RC (along with a number of others
since the initial RC [9]).

The source tarball, including signatures, digests, etc can be found at:
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/phoenix/phoenix-4.7.0-HBase-0.98-rc3/src/

The binary artifacts can be found at:
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/phoenix/phoenix-4.7.0-HBase-0.98-rc3/bin/

For a complete list of changes, see:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12315120&version=12333998

Release artifacts are signed with the following key:
https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/mujtaba.asc

KEYS file available here:
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/phoenix/KEYS

The hash and tag to be voted upon:
https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=phoenix.git;a=commit;h=2b386b2d3eff2dc4921398906e43450a9c9e96cb
https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=phoenix.git;a=tag;h=refs/tags/v4.7.0-HBase-0.98-rc3

Vote will close on Monday, February 29th @ 5pm PST. Please vote:

[ ] +1 approve
[ ] +0 no opinion
[ ] -1 disapprove (and reason why)

Thanks,
The Apache Phoenix Team

[1] https://phoenix.apache.org/transactions.html
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-2430
[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-2702
[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-2692
[5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-1428
[6] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-2377
[7] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-2520
[8] https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12334876
[9] https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12334875