2.46 Branch Creation Approaching

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Jan, Hi Matthieu,

> Well. The bigger series all went in, but as you likely have seen the OAv2 one
> has caused quite a bit of fallout, not all of which is under control yet afaict.
> Yet of course in principle any of that can be dealt by backporting respective
> fixes to the branch.

True - are you confident that whatever fixes are needed can be developed in the
next two weeks ?

I think that I will go ahead and create the branch this weekend.  But fixing the
OAv2 issue before the 2.46 release is important, so if more time is needed I will
delay the actual release itself.

Cheers
   Nick