Present:  Florido, David, Andrii, Balazs, Mattias, Maiken,

i) RC1 status:  Dyma gave the green light, the code is ready to be tagged as rc1

DECISION: tag RC1 Today

ii) packages for RC1

ACTION: Anders to produce official release candidate packages

ACTION2: Maiken to announce the availability of the RC once the packages are out.

iii) deployment tests reports:

so far Dyma and Christian played with nightlies

iv) discovered problems:

- large number of open sockets: is this a problem or an expected behaviour? Need answer from Aleksandr

- clusteralias: fixed

- accounting changes of Andrii to be checked with Dyma

v) arc6 timeline update

-testing rc1 completed on varousreal sites:  22nd March

-rc2 or final arc6 can be out 27 March

vi) Documentation:

--release note for arc6 : needs serious work

--arc.conf.reference still needs cleanup (e.g. TODOs, leftover notes)