Planning a 0.70 release for end of month

[Steve Loughran <st...@hortonworks.com>]

I'd like to push out a new release of Slider, targeting code freeze at the
end of january, with the vote process starting feb 1.

This will be off the develop branch.


   1. Please go to the slider scrum page to plan any work:

   https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=41&view=detail
   2. Have a look at the backlog and see if there are any bug fixes that
   are easy to fix & get in.
   3. Same for any issues with pending patches.
   4. If are doing something big which will be incomplete, only merge into
   develop/ those pieces that are stable and secure


As an example of #4, I've currently opened the whole of the slider ws/* URL
tree to direct HTTP access for developing the SLIDER-151 rest API. I'll be
changing the core settings so that this security hole is disabled: the new
REST API will therefore be read only via the RM proxy.

I'm planning to test locally against: secure linux & insecure windowsl in
an EN locale and GMT timezone. The more combination we can get of systems
locales and networks the better. The recently applied SLIDER-737 patch
from Yang
Hao  fixes some locale problems —I'll do a scan for any use of
String.toLower()/toUpper() to round things out (it doesn't map "I" to "i"
and vice-versa in turkish locales)


-Steve

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