update config to 0.8.1

Author: manuzhang <owenzhang1990@gmail.com>

Closes #5 from manuzhang/upgrade.
diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml
index f16a14b..e65cffa 100644
--- a/_config.yml
+++ b/_config.yml
@@ -14,6 +14,6 @@
   - _modules
 
 # These allow the documentation to be updated with newer releases of Gearpump
-GEARPUMP_VERSION: 0.8.0
+GEARPUMP_VERSION: 0.8.1
 SCALA_BINARY_VERSION: "2.11"
 SCALA_VERSION: "2.11.8"
diff --git a/content/2015/12/29/0.7.1_release.html b/content/2015/12/29/0.7.1_release.html
index 474f747..4046b1e 100644
--- a/content/2015/12/29/0.7.1_release.html
+++ b/content/2015/12/29/0.7.1_release.html
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
           <li class="dropdown">
             <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">Docs<b class="caret"></b></a>
             <ul class="dropdown-menu">
-              <li><a href="releases/latest/index.html">Latest Release (0.8.0)</a></li>
+              <li><a href="releases/latest/index.html">Latest Release (0.8.1)</a></li>
               <li><a href="usecases.html">Use Cases</a></li>
               <li class="divider"></li>
               <li><a href="publications.html">Publications</a></li>
diff --git a/content/blogs.html b/content/blogs.html
index e1e73a3..8f9358d 100644
--- a/content/blogs.html
+++ b/content/blogs.html
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
           <li class="dropdown">
             <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">Docs<b class="caret"></b></a>
             <ul class="dropdown-menu">
-              <li><a href="releases/latest/index.html">Latest Release (0.8.0)</a></li>
+              <li><a href="releases/latest/index.html">Latest Release (0.8.1)</a></li>
               <li><a href="usecases.html">Use Cases</a></li>
               <li class="divider"></li>
               <li><a href="publications.html">Publications</a></li>
diff --git a/content/coding-style.html b/content/coding-style.html
index 7c5fadd..1194a96 100644
--- a/content/coding-style.html
+++ b/content/coding-style.html
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
           <li class="dropdown">
             <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">Docs<b class="caret"></b></a>
             <ul class="dropdown-menu">
-              <li><a href="releases/latest/index.html">Latest Release (0.8.0)</a></li>
+              <li><a href="releases/latest/index.html">Latest Release (0.8.1)</a></li>
               <li><a href="usecases.html">Use Cases</a></li>
               <li class="divider"></li>
               <li><a href="publications.html">Publications</a></li>
diff --git a/content/community.html b/content/community.html
index daa80ca..4965a11 100644
--- a/content/community.html
+++ b/content/community.html
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
           <li class="dropdown">
             <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">Docs<b class="caret"></b></a>
             <ul class="dropdown-menu">
-              <li><a href="releases/latest/index.html">Latest Release (0.8.0)</a></li>
+              <li><a href="releases/latest/index.html">Latest Release (0.8.1)</a></li>
               <li><a href="usecases.html">Use Cases</a></li>
               <li class="divider"></li>
               <li><a href="publications.html">Publications</a></li>
diff --git a/content/downloads.html b/content/downloads.html
index d29f14b..dfa5341 100644
--- a/content/downloads.html
+++ b/content/downloads.html
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
           <li class="dropdown">
             <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">Docs<b class="caret"></b></a>
             <ul class="dropdown-menu">
-              <li><a href="releases/latest/index.html">Latest Release (0.8.0)</a></li>
+              <li><a href="releases/latest/index.html">Latest Release (0.8.1)</a></li>
               <li><a href="usecases.html">Use Cases</a></li>
               <li class="divider"></li>
               <li><a href="publications.html">Publications</a></li>
@@ -97,14 +97,14 @@
 
    <h2 id="downloads">Downloads</h2>
 
-<h3 id="latest-stable-release-v080-this-is-not-an-apache-release">Latest Stable Release (v0.8.0) (This is not an Apache release)</h3>
+<h3 id="latest-stable-release-v081-this-is-not-an-apache-release">Latest Stable Release (v0.8.1) (This is not an Apache release)</h3>
 
 <p><a href="https://github.com/gearpump/gearpump/releases">Release Notes</a></p>
 
 <ul>
-  <li><a href="https://github.com/gearpump/gearpump/releases/download/0.8.0/gearpump-2.11-0.8.0.zip">Binary (for Scala 2.11)</a></li>
-  <li><a href="https://github.com/gearpump/gearpump/archive/0.8.0.zip">Source code (.zip)</a></li>
-  <li><a href="https://github.com/gearpump/gearpump/archive/0.8.0.tar.gz">Source code (.tar.gz)</a></li>
+  <li><a href="https://github.com/gearpump/gearpump/releases/download/0.8.1/gearpump-2.11-0.8.1.zip">Binary (for Scala 2.11)</a></li>
+  <li><a href="https://github.com/gearpump/gearpump/archive/0.8.1.zip">Source code (.zip)</a></li>
+  <li><a href="https://github.com/gearpump/gearpump/archive/0.8.1.tar.gz">Source code (.tar.gz)</a></li>
 </ul>
 
 <p><em>Note that as we have upgraded the Akka library to 2.4.x, which has dropped the Scala 2.10 support, we do NOT provide Gearpump build for Scala 2.10 since Gearpump 0.8.0.</em></p>
@@ -117,12 +117,12 @@
   <span class="nt">&lt;dependency&gt;</span>
     <span class="nt">&lt;groupId&gt;</span>com.github.intel-hadoop<span class="nt">&lt;/groupId&gt;</span>
     <span class="nt">&lt;artifactId&gt;</span>gearpump-core_2.11<span class="nt">&lt;/artifactId&gt;</span>
-    <span class="nt">&lt;version&gt;</span>0.8.0<span class="nt">&lt;/version&gt;</span>
+    <span class="nt">&lt;version&gt;</span>0.8.1<span class="nt">&lt;/version&gt;</span>
   <span class="nt">&lt;/dependency&gt;</span>
   <span class="nt">&lt;dependency&gt;</span>
     <span class="nt">&lt;groupId&gt;</span>com.github.intel-hadoop<span class="nt">&lt;/groupId&gt;</span>
     <span class="nt">&lt;artifactId&gt;</span>gearpump-streaming_2.11<span class="nt">&lt;/artifactId&gt;</span>
-    <span class="nt">&lt;version&gt;</span>0.8.0<span class="nt">&lt;/version&gt;</span>
+    <span class="nt">&lt;version&gt;</span>0.8.1<span class="nt">&lt;/version&gt;</span>
   <span class="nt">&lt;/dependency&gt;</span>
 <span class="nt">&lt;/dependencies&gt;</span></code></pre></figure>
 
diff --git a/content/faq.html b/content/faq.html
index 8bceb16..2e54423 100644
--- a/content/faq.html
+++ b/content/faq.html
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
           <li class="dropdown">
             <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">Docs<b class="caret"></b></a>
             <ul class="dropdown-menu">
-              <li><a href="releases/latest/index.html">Latest Release (0.8.0)</a></li>
+              <li><a href="releases/latest/index.html">Latest Release (0.8.1)</a></li>
               <li><a href="usecases.html">Use Cases</a></li>
               <li class="divider"></li>
               <li><a href="publications.html">Publications</a></li>
diff --git a/content/features.html b/content/features.html
index 93443bc..a7dfa21 100644
--- a/content/features.html
+++ b/content/features.html
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
           <li class="dropdown">
             <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">Docs<b class="caret"></b></a>
             <ul class="dropdown-menu">
-              <li><a href="releases/latest/index.html">Latest Release (0.8.0)</a></li>
+              <li><a href="releases/latest/index.html">Latest Release (0.8.1)</a></li>
               <li><a href="usecases.html">Use Cases</a></li>
               <li class="divider"></li>
               <li><a href="publications.html">Publications</a></li>
diff --git a/content/how-to-contribute.html b/content/how-to-contribute.html
index fb7e058..dd5a60e 100644
--- a/content/how-to-contribute.html
+++ b/content/how-to-contribute.html
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
           <li class="dropdown">
             <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">Docs<b class="caret"></b></a>
             <ul class="dropdown-menu">
-              <li><a href="releases/latest/index.html">Latest Release (0.8.0)</a></li>
+              <li><a href="releases/latest/index.html">Latest Release (0.8.1)</a></li>
               <li><a href="usecases.html">Use Cases</a></li>
               <li class="divider"></li>
               <li><a href="publications.html">Publications</a></li>
diff --git a/content/license.html b/content/license.html
index c094b1d..05465ac 100644
--- a/content/license.html
+++ b/content/license.html
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
           <li class="dropdown">
             <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">Docs<b class="caret"></b></a>
             <ul class="dropdown-menu">
-              <li><a href="releases/latest/index.html">Latest Release (0.8.0)</a></li>
+              <li><a href="releases/latest/index.html">Latest Release (0.8.1)</a></li>
               <li><a href="usecases.html">Use Cases</a></li>
               <li class="divider"></li>
               <li><a href="publications.html">Publications</a></li>
diff --git a/content/overview.html b/content/overview.html
index 27dc76e..d462e57 100644
--- a/content/overview.html
+++ b/content/overview.html
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
   <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1,maximum-scale=1"/>
   <title>Apache Gearpump (Incubating): Overview</title>
   
-    <meta name="description" content="Apache Gearpump 0.8.0 documentation homepage">
+    <meta name="description" content="Apache Gearpump 0.8.1 documentation homepage">
   
 
   
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
           <li class="dropdown">
             <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">Docs<b class="caret"></b></a>
             <ul class="dropdown-menu">
-              <li><a href="releases/latest/index.html">Latest Release (0.8.0)</a></li>
+              <li><a href="releases/latest/index.html">Latest Release (0.8.1)</a></li>
               <li><a href="usecases.html">Use Cases</a></li>
               <li class="divider"></li>
               <li><a href="publications.html">Publications</a></li>
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
    
 
    <p><img src="/favicon.ico" alt="gearpump-logo" /> 
-<a href="http://www.gearpump.io/downloads.html"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Latest%20Release-v0.8.0-blue.svg" alt="Release" /></a></p>
+<a href="http://www.gearpump.io/downloads.html"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Latest%20Release-v0.8.1-blue.svg" alt="Release" /></a></p>
 
 <p><strong>Apache Gearpump</strong> is a real-time big data streaming engine. The name Gearpump is a reference to the engineering term &#8220;gear pump&#8221; which is a super simple pump that consists of only two gears, but is very powerful at streaming water. Different to other streaming engines, Gearpump&#8217;s engine is event/message based. Per initial benchmarks we are able to process 18 million messages per second (message length is 100 bytes) with a 8ms latency on a 4-node cluster.</p>
 
diff --git a/content/performance-report.html b/content/performance-report.html
index 2795dce..573bc82 100644
--- a/content/performance-report.html
+++ b/content/performance-report.html
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
           <li class="dropdown">
             <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">Docs<b class="caret"></b></a>
             <ul class="dropdown-menu">
-              <li><a href="releases/latest/index.html">Latest Release (0.8.0)</a></li>
+              <li><a href="releases/latest/index.html">Latest Release (0.8.1)</a></li>
               <li><a href="usecases.html">Use Cases</a></li>
               <li class="divider"></li>
               <li><a href="publications.html">Publications</a></li>
diff --git a/content/publications.html b/content/publications.html
index 59d02f8..e0122cf 100644
--- a/content/publications.html
+++ b/content/publications.html
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
           <li class="dropdown">
             <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">Docs<b class="caret"></b></a>
             <ul class="dropdown-menu">
-              <li><a href="releases/latest/index.html">Latest Release (0.8.0)</a></li>
+              <li><a href="releases/latest/index.html">Latest Release (0.8.1)</a></li>
               <li><a href="usecases.html">Use Cases</a></li>
               <li class="divider"></li>
               <li><a href="publications.html">Publications</a></li>
diff --git a/content/roadmap.html b/content/roadmap.html
index cae1c92..d6ff1cc 100644
--- a/content/roadmap.html
+++ b/content/roadmap.html
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
           <li class="dropdown">
             <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">Docs<b class="caret"></b></a>
             <ul class="dropdown-menu">
-              <li><a href="releases/latest/index.html">Latest Release (0.8.0)</a></li>
+              <li><a href="releases/latest/index.html">Latest Release (0.8.1)</a></li>
               <li><a href="usecases.html">Use Cases</a></li>
               <li class="divider"></li>
               <li><a href="publications.html">Publications</a></li>
diff --git a/content/usecases.html b/content/usecases.html
index e16094c..1bed657 100644
--- a/content/usecases.html
+++ b/content/usecases.html
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
           <li class="dropdown">
             <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">Docs<b class="caret"></b></a>
             <ul class="dropdown-menu">
-              <li><a href="releases/latest/index.html">Latest Release (0.8.0)</a></li>
+              <li><a href="releases/latest/index.html">Latest Release (0.8.1)</a></li>
               <li><a href="usecases.html">Use Cases</a></li>
               <li class="divider"></li>
               <li><a href="publications.html">Publications</a></li>
diff --git a/merge_gearpump_pr.py b/merge_gearpump_pr.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..9684692
--- /dev/null
+++ b/merge_gearpump_pr.py
@@ -0,0 +1,378 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+# Modifed from the script written by the Apache Spark team: 
+#     https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/dev/merge_spark_pr.py
+
+# Utility for creating well-formed pull request merges and pushing them to Apache.
+#   usage: ./merge_gearpump_pr.py    (see config env vars below)
+#
+# This utility assumes you already have a local Gearpump git folder and that you
+# have added remotes corresponding to both 
+#     (i) the github apache Gearpump mirror 
+#     (ii) the apache git repo.
+
+import json
+import os
+import re
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import urllib2
+
+try:
+    import jira.client
+    JIRA_IMPORTED = True
+except ImportError:
+    JIRA_IMPORTED = False
+
+# Location of your Gearpump git development area
+GEARPUMP_HOME = os.environ.get("GEARPUMP_HOME", os.getcwd())
+# Remote name which points to git://github.com/apache/incubator-gearpump
+PR_REMOTE_NAME = os.environ.get("PR_REMOTE_NAME", "apache-github")
+# Remote name which points to https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-gearpump.git
+PUSH_REMOTE_NAME = os.environ.get("PUSH_REMOTE_NAME", "apache")
+# ASF JIRA username
+JIRA_USERNAME = os.environ.get("JIRA_USERNAME", "mauzhang")
+# ASF JIRA password
+JIRA_PASSWORD = os.environ.get("JIRA_PASSWORD", "jira$1024")
+
+
+GITHUB_BASE = "https://github.com/apache/incubator-gearpump-site/pull"
+GITHUB_API_BASE = "https://api.github.com/repos/apache/incubator-gearpump-site"
+JIRA_BASE = "https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse"
+JIRA_API_BASE = "https://issues.apache.org/jira"
+# Prefix added to temporary branches
+BRANCH_PREFIX = "PR_TOOL"
+
+
+def get_json(url):
+    try:
+        return json.load(urllib2.urlopen(url))
+    except urllib2.HTTPError as e:
+        print "Unable to fetch URL, exiting: %s" % url
+        sys.exit(-1)
+
+
+def fail(msg):
+    print msg
+    clean_up()
+    sys.exit(-1)
+
+
+def run_cmd(cmd):
+    print cmd
+    if isinstance(cmd, list):
+        return subprocess.check_output(cmd)
+    else:
+        return subprocess.check_output(cmd.split(" "))
+
+
+def continue_maybe(prompt):
+    result = raw_input("\n%s (y/n): " % prompt)
+    if result.lower() != "y":
+        fail("Okay, exiting")
+
+def clean_up():
+    print "Restoring head pointer to %s" % original_head
+    run_cmd("git checkout %s" % original_head)
+
+    branches = run_cmd("git branch").replace(" ", "").split("\n")
+
+    for branch in filter(lambda x: x.startswith(BRANCH_PREFIX), branches):
+        print "Deleting local branch %s" % branch
+        run_cmd("git branch -D %s" % branch)
+
+
+# merge the requested PR and return the merge hash
+def merge_pr(pr_num, target_ref, title, body, pr_repo_desc):
+    pr_branch_name = "%s_MERGE_PR_%s" % (BRANCH_PREFIX, pr_num)
+    target_branch_name = "%s_MERGE_PR_%s_%s" % (BRANCH_PREFIX, pr_num, target_ref.upper())
+    run_cmd("git fetch %s pull/%s/head:%s" % (PR_REMOTE_NAME, pr_num, pr_branch_name))
+    run_cmd("git fetch %s %s:%s" % (PUSH_REMOTE_NAME, target_ref, target_branch_name))
+    run_cmd("git checkout %s" % target_branch_name)
+
+    had_conflicts = False
+    try:
+        run_cmd(['git', 'merge', pr_branch_name, '--squash'])
+    except Exception as e:
+        msg = "Error merging: %s\nWould you like to manually fix-up this merge?" % e
+        continue_maybe(msg)
+        msg = "Okay, please fix any conflicts and 'git add' conflicting files... Finished?"
+        continue_maybe(msg)
+        had_conflicts = True
+
+    commit_authors = run_cmd(['git', 'log', 'HEAD..%s' % pr_branch_name,
+                             '--pretty=format:%an <%ae>']).split("\n")
+    distinct_authors = sorted(set(commit_authors),
+                              key=lambda x: commit_authors.count(x), reverse=True)
+
+    primary_author = distinct_authors[0]
+
+    commits = run_cmd(['git', 'log', 'HEAD..%s' % pr_branch_name,
+                      '--pretty=format:%h [%an] %s']).split("\n\n")
+
+    merge_message_flags = []
+
+    merge_message_flags += ["-m", title]
+    if body is not None:
+        # We remove @ symbols from the body to avoid triggering e-mails
+        # to people every time someone creates a public fork of Gearpump.
+        merge_message_flags += ["-m", body.replace("@", "")]
+
+    authors = "\n".join(["Author: %s" % a for a in distinct_authors])
+
+    merge_message_flags += ["-m", authors]
+
+    if had_conflicts:
+        committer_name = run_cmd("git config --get user.name").strip()
+        committer_email = run_cmd("git config --get user.email").strip()
+        message = "This patch had conflicts when merged, resolved by\nCommitter: %s <%s>" % (
+            committer_name, committer_email)
+        merge_message_flags += ["-m", message]
+
+    # The string "Closes #%s" string is required for GitHub to correctly close the PR
+    merge_message_flags += ["-m", "Closes #%s from %s." % (pr_num, pr_repo_desc)]
+
+    run_cmd(['git', 'commit', '--author="%s"' % primary_author] + merge_message_flags)
+
+    continue_maybe("Merge complete (local ref %s). Push to %s?" % (
+        target_branch_name, PUSH_REMOTE_NAME))
+
+    try:
+        run_cmd('git push %s %s:%s' % (PUSH_REMOTE_NAME, target_branch_name, target_ref))
+    except Exception as e:
+        clean_up()
+        fail("Exception while pushing: %s" % e)
+
+    merge_hash = run_cmd("git rev-parse %s" % target_branch_name)[:8]
+    clean_up()
+    print("Pull request #%s merged!" % pr_num)
+    print("Merge hash: %s" % merge_hash)
+    return merge_hash
+
+
+def cherry_pick(pr_num, merge_hash, default_branch):
+    pick_ref = raw_input("Enter a branch name [%s]: " % default_branch)
+    if pick_ref == "":
+        pick_ref = default_branch
+
+    pick_branch_name = "%s_PICK_PR_%s_%s" % (BRANCH_PREFIX, pr_num, pick_ref.upper())
+
+    run_cmd("git fetch %s %s:%s" % (PUSH_REMOTE_NAME, pick_ref, pick_branch_name))
+    run_cmd("git checkout %s" % pick_branch_name)
+
+    try:
+        run_cmd("git cherry-pick -sx %s" % merge_hash)
+    except Exception as e:
+        msg = "Error cherry-picking: %s\nWould you like to manually fix-up this merge?" % e
+        continue_maybe(msg)
+        msg = "Okay, please fix any conflicts and finish the cherry-pick. Finished?"
+        continue_maybe(msg)
+
+    continue_maybe("Pick complete (local ref %s). Push to %s?" % (
+        pick_branch_name, PUSH_REMOTE_NAME))
+
+    try:
+        run_cmd('git push %s %s:%s' % (PUSH_REMOTE_NAME, pick_branch_name, pick_ref))
+    except Exception as e:
+        clean_up()
+        fail("Exception while pushing: %s" % e)
+
+    pick_hash = run_cmd("git rev-parse %s" % pick_branch_name)[:8]
+    clean_up()
+
+    print("Pull request #%s picked into %s!" % (pr_num, pick_ref))
+    print("Pick hash: %s" % pick_hash)
+    return pick_ref
+
+
+def fix_version_from_branch(branch, versions):
+    # Note: Assumes this is a sorted (newest->oldest) list of un-released versions
+    if branch == "master":
+        return versions[0]
+    else:
+        branch_ver = branch.replace("branch-", "")
+        return filter(lambda x: x.name.startswith(branch_ver), versions)[-1]
+
+
+def resolve_jira_issue(merge_branches, comment, default_jira_id=""):
+    asf_jira = jira.client.JIRA({'server': JIRA_API_BASE},
+                                basic_auth=(JIRA_USERNAME, JIRA_PASSWORD))
+
+    jira_id = raw_input("Enter a JIRA id [%s]: " % default_jira_id)
+    if jira_id == "":
+        jira_id = default_jira_id
+
+    try:
+        issue = asf_jira.issue(jira_id)
+    except Exception as e:
+        fail("ASF JIRA could not find %s\n%s" % (jira_id, e))
+
+    cur_status = issue.fields.status.name
+    cur_summary = issue.fields.summary
+    cur_assignee = issue.fields.assignee
+    if cur_assignee is None:
+        cur_assignee = "NOT ASSIGNED!!!"
+    else:
+        cur_assignee = cur_assignee.displayName
+
+    if cur_status == "Resolved" or cur_status == "Closed":
+        fail("JIRA issue %s already has status '%s'" % (jira_id, cur_status))
+    print ("=== JIRA %s ===" % jira_id)
+    print ("summary\t\t%s\nassignee\t%s\nstatus\t\t%s\nurl\t\t%s/%s\n" % (
+        cur_summary, cur_assignee, cur_status, JIRA_BASE, jira_id))
+
+    versions = asf_jira.project_versions("GEARPUMP")
+    versions = sorted(versions, key=lambda x: x.name, reverse=True)
+    versions = filter(lambda x: x.raw['released'] is False, versions)
+    # Consider only x.y.z versions
+    versions = filter(lambda x: re.match('\d+\.\d+\.\d+', x.name), versions)
+
+    default_fix_versions = map(lambda x: fix_version_from_branch(x, versions).name, merge_branches)
+    for v in default_fix_versions:
+        # Handles the case where we have forked a release branch but not yet made the release.
+        # In this case, if the PR is committed to the master branch and the release branch, we
+        # only consider the release branch to be the fix version. E.g. it is not valid to have
+        # both 1.1.0 and 1.0.0 as fix versions.
+        (major, minor, patch) = v.split(".")
+        if patch == "0":
+            previous = "%s.%s.%s" % (major, int(minor) - 1, 0)
+            if previous in default_fix_versions:
+                default_fix_versions = filter(lambda x: x != v, default_fix_versions)
+    default_fix_versions = ",".join(default_fix_versions)
+
+    fix_versions = raw_input("Enter comma-separated fix version(s) [%s]: " % default_fix_versions)
+    if fix_versions == "":
+        fix_versions = default_fix_versions
+    fix_versions = fix_versions.replace(" ", "").split(",")
+
+    def get_version_json(version_str):
+        return filter(lambda v: v.name == version_str, versions)[0].raw
+
+    jira_fix_versions = map(lambda v: get_version_json(v), fix_versions)
+
+    resolve = filter(lambda a: a['name'] == "Resolve Issue", asf_jira.transitions(jira_id))[0]
+    resolution = filter(lambda r: r.raw['name'] == "Fixed", asf_jira.resolutions())[0]
+    asf_jira.transition_issue(
+        jira_id, resolve["id"], fixVersions = jira_fix_versions,
+        comment = comment, resolution = {'id': resolution.raw['id']})
+
+    print "Successfully resolved %s with fixVersions=%s!" % (jira_id, fix_versions)
+
+
+def resolve_jira_issues(title, merge_branches, comment):
+    jira_ids = re.findall("GEARPUMP-[0-9]+", title)
+
+    if len(jira_ids) == 0:
+        resolve_jira_issue(merge_branches, comment)
+    for jira_id in jira_ids:
+        resolve_jira_issue(merge_branches, comment, jira_id)
+
+def get_current_ref():
+    ref = run_cmd("git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD").strip()
+    if ref == 'HEAD':
+        # The current ref is a detached HEAD, so grab its SHA.
+        return run_cmd("git rev-parse HEAD").strip()
+    else:
+        return ref
+
+
+def main():
+    global original_head
+
+    os.chdir(GEARPUMP_HOME)
+    original_head = get_current_ref()
+
+    branches = get_json("%s/branches" % GITHUB_API_BASE)
+    branch_names = filter(lambda x: True, [x['name'] for x in branches])
+    # Assumes branch names can be sorted lexicographically
+    latest_branch = sorted(branch_names, reverse=True)[0]
+
+    pr_num = raw_input("Which pull request would you like to merge? (e.g. 34): ")
+    pr = get_json("%s/pulls/%s" % (GITHUB_API_BASE, pr_num))
+    pr_events = get_json("%s/issues/%s/events" % (GITHUB_API_BASE, pr_num))
+
+    url = pr["url"]
+
+    title = pr["title"]
+    body = pr["body"]
+    target_ref = pr["base"]["ref"]
+    user_login = pr["user"]["login"]
+    base_ref = pr["head"]["ref"]
+    pr_repo_desc = "%s/%s" % (user_login, base_ref)
+
+    # Merged pull requests don't appear as merged in the GitHub API;
+    # Instead, they're closed by asfgit.
+    merge_commits = \
+        [e for e in pr_events if e["actor"]["login"] == "asfgit" and e["event"] == "closed"]
+
+    if merge_commits:
+        merge_hash = merge_commits[0]["commit_id"]
+        message = get_json("%s/commits/%s" % (GITHUB_API_BASE, merge_hash))["commit"]["message"]
+
+        print "Pull request %s has already been merged, assuming you want to backport" % pr_num
+        commit_is_downloaded = run_cmd(['git', 'rev-parse', '--quiet', '--verify',
+                                    "%s^{commit}" % merge_hash]).strip() != ""
+        if not commit_is_downloaded:
+            fail("Couldn't find any merge commit for #%s, you may need to update HEAD." % pr_num)
+
+        print "Found commit %s:\n%s" % (merge_hash, message)
+        cherry_pick(pr_num, merge_hash, latest_branch)
+        sys.exit(0)
+
+    if not bool(pr["mergeable"]):
+        msg = "Pull request %s is not mergeable in its current form.\n" % pr_num + \
+            "Continue? (experts only!)"
+        continue_maybe(msg)
+
+    print ("\n=== Pull Request #%s ===" % pr_num)
+    print ("title\t%s\nsource\t%s\ntarget\t%s\nurl\t%s" % (
+        title, pr_repo_desc, target_ref, url))
+    continue_maybe("Proceed with merging pull request #%s?" % pr_num)
+
+    merged_refs = [target_ref]
+
+    merge_hash = merge_pr(pr_num, target_ref, title, body, pr_repo_desc)
+
+    pick_prompt = "Would you like to pick %s into another branch?" % merge_hash
+    while raw_input("\n%s (y/n): " % pick_prompt).lower() == "y":
+        merged_refs = merged_refs + [cherry_pick(pr_num, merge_hash, latest_branch)]
+
+    if JIRA_IMPORTED:
+        if JIRA_USERNAME and JIRA_PASSWORD:
+            continue_maybe("Would you like to update an associated JIRA?")
+            jira_comment = "Issue resolved by pull request %s\n[%s/%s]" % (pr_num, GITHUB_BASE, pr_num)
+            resolve_jira_issues(title, merged_refs, jira_comment)
+        else:
+            print "JIRA_USERNAME and JIRA_PASSWORD not set"
+            print "Exiting without trying to close the associated JIRA."
+    else:
+        print "Could not find jira-python library. Run 'sudo pip install jira' to install."
+        print "Exiting without trying to close the associated JIRA."
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    import doctest
+    (failure_count, test_count) = doctest.testmod()
+    if failure_count:
+        exit(-1)
+    try:
+        main()
+    except:
+        clean_up()
+        raise