00:01, Saturday, 25th Apr 2015 PDT : Deadline for call for patches for general purpose feature inclusion.(must have patch-available already to request for feature inclusion after this)

00:15, Saturday, 25th Apr 2015 PDT : Branch creation for branch-1.2.

12:01, Monday 27th Apr 2015 PDT : Work begins on rolling out RC0 - the purpose of RC0 will be to test out that we're able to go through the process of making a release candidate, and will likely not include all the bugfixes planned for this release.

00:01, Tuesday, 28th Apr 2015 PDT : Deadline for call for patches for feature inclusion if the features are near end-of-development. (only bugfixes allowed after this). Non-bugfix JIRAs that have already been requested for inclusion before this time, that have not yet been resolved will not be affected, we will still treat them as blockers for the eventual release.

12:01, Wednesday, 29th Apr 2015 PDT : Current tracking time for community availability of RC0.

13:37, Wednesday, 29th Apr 2015 PDT : RC0 made available : http://people.apache.org/~khorgath/releases/1.2.0_RC0/artifacts/

00:01, Friday, 1st May 2015 PDT : Deadline for call for patches for inclusion for bugfixes that have a workaround (only product outages, regressions and trivial patches allowed after this)

18:06, Thursday, 7th May 2015 PDT : RC1 made available : http://people.apache.org/~khorgath/releases/1.2.0_RC1/artifacts/

  Work begins on rolling out RC1 - the purpose of RC1 will be to be the first actual release candidate, and include all the feature commits and any bugfix commits that have happened so far. Full test run intended on RC1, with community verification.16:01, Monday, 4th May 2015 PDT : Current tracking time for community availability of RC1.