We're rapidly approaching the end of the Ocata cycle. There are several deadlines coming up within the next few weeks, so please review the schedule and make sure you understand how they affect your teams.
Focus ----- This week begins Feature Freeze for all milestone-based projects. No feature patches should be landed after this point. Exceptions may be granted by the project PTL. This week is the final release deadline for client libraries. The deadline for client library releases is Thursday 26 Jan. We do not grant Feature Freeze Extensions for any libraries, so that is a hard freeze date. Any feature work that requires updates to client libraries should be prioritized so it can be completed by that time. This week starts the Soft StringFreeze. You are no longer allowed to accept proposed changes containing modifications in user-facing strings. Such changes should be rejected by the review team and postponed until the next series development opens (which should happen when RC1 is published). This week starts the Requirements freeze. After the milestone, only critical requirements and constraints changes will be allowed. Freezing our requirements list gives packagers downstream an opportunity to catch up and prepare packages for everything necessary for distributions of the upcoming release. The requirements remain frozen until the stable branches are created, with the release candidates. Release Tasks ------------- Prepare final release and branch requests for all client libraries. Milestone-based projects should ensure that the membership of your $project-release gerrit groups is up to date with the team who will finalize the project release. Please coordinate with the release management team if you have any questions. This is a good time to review stable branches for unreleased changes and prepare those releases, too. Teams should prepare their documentation for completing the community-wide goal of removing the use of deprecated Oslo libraries. See https://governance.openstack.org/tc/goals/index.html for details about how to communicate your status on the goal. General Notes ------------- The RC1 target week in R-3 is only 1 week after freeze. This is different from our usual 2 week freeze period, so please stay on top of reviews and minimize FFEs accordingly. We will start the soft string freeze during R-4 (23-27 Jan). See https://releases.openstack.org/ocata/schedule.html#o-soft-sf for details The release team is now publishing the release calendar using ICS. Subscribe your favorite calendaring software to https://releases.openstack.org/schedule.ics for automatic updates. Important Dates --------------- Ocata 3 Milestone, with Feature and Requirements Freezes: 26 Jan Ocata RC1 target: 2 Feb Ocata Final Release candidate deadline: 16 Feb Ocata release schedule: http://releases.openstack.org/ocata/schedule.html __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
