I mentioned this in the nova meeting today [1] but wanted to post to the ML for feedback.

We didn't talk about spec or feature freeze dates at the PTG. The Pike release schedule is [2].

Spec freeze
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In Newton and Ocata we had spec freeze on the first milestone.

I'm proposing that we do the same thing for Pike. The first milestone for Pike is April 13th which gives us about 6 weeks to go through the specs we're going to approve. A rough look at the open specs in Gerrit shows we have about 125 proposed and some of those are going to be re-approvals from previous releases. We already have 16 blueprints approved for Pike. Keep in mind that in Newton we had ~100 approved blueprints by the freeze and completed or partially completed 64.

Feature freeze
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In Newton we had a non-priority feature freeze between n-1 and n-2. In Ocata we just had the feature freeze at o-3 for everything because of the short schedule.

We have fewer core reviewers so I personally don't want to cut off the majority of blueprints too early in the cycle so I'm proposing that we do like in Ocata and just follow the feature freeze on the p-3 milestone which is July 27th.

We will still have priority review items for the release and when push comes to shove those will get priority over other review items, but I don't think it's helpful to cut off non-priority blueprints before n-3. I thought there was a fair amount of non-priority blueprint code that landed in Ocata when we didn't cut it off early. Referring back to the Ocata blueprint burndown [3] most everything was completed between the 2nd milestone and feature freeze.

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Does anyone have an issue with this plan? If not, I'll update [4] with the nova-specific dates.

[1] http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/nova/2017/nova.2017-03-02-21.00.log.html#l-119
[2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Nova/Pike_Release_Schedule
[3] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-February/111639.html
[4] https://releases.openstack.org/pike/schedule.html

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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann

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