Focus ----- R-5 (Feb 29 - Mar 4 ) is the Mitaka-3 milestone and overall feature, requirements, and string freezes. Feature work already in progress should continue. Other features should be postponed to the next release.
Project teams should start shifting focus from feature development to hardening, bug fixes, and stability work. General Notes ------------- Non-client libraries are under a release freeze, except for critical bug fixes. Features in projects using the cycle-with-milestone release model that are not completed this week will need a "feature freeze exception" (FFE). PTLs can manage feature freeze exceptions directly, but should be very cautious with them and not grant exceptions for work where they are not 100% sure it will be finished given an extra week. Every additional FFE delays the release candidates, which in turn reduces the end release quality. Be careful about granting more than a couple of exceptions. Release Actions --------------- We will be more strictly enforcing the library release freeze this cycle. Please review client libraries managed by your team and ensure that recent changes have been released and the global requirements and constraints lists are up to date with accurate minimum versions and exclusions. This week is the final opportunity to release client libraries. Projects using the cycle-with-intermediary release model need to produce intermediate releases, if you are going to have one this cycle. See Thierry's email for details [1]. Projects using cycle-with-milestone release model should prepare the release requests for 0b3 tags for all projects this week. Refer to the final release process, documented in Thierry's email [1]. Review your stable/liberty branches for necessary releases and submit patches to openstack/releases if you want them. [1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-February/086152.html Important Dates --------------- Mitaka 3 milestone: Feb 29 - Mar 4 Final release for client libraries: Mar 2 RC Target Week: R-3, Mar 14-18 Mitaka release schedule: http://releases.openstack.org/mitaka/schedule.html __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
