Draft schedule for 6.2. This is just starting from "don't want a possibly-late release to get too close to xmas holiday season" and working backwards.
2021-11-02 Soft feature freeze. Only bug fixes after this point. All feature changes must be already in a sub maintainer tree and all pull requests from submaintainers must have been sent to the list by this date. 2021-11-09 Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0 2021-11-16 Tag rc1 2021-11-23 Tag rc2 2021-11-30 Tag rc3 2021-12-07 Release; or tag rc4 if needed 2021-12-14 Release if we needed an rc4 Opinions? -- PMM