Hello release team, The OpenStack Ussuri release is scheduled for one month after the release of Ubuntu Focal, which is a pretty big change from the past. While not ideal, it should still be manageable to deliver Ussuri with Focal if we can plan for it properly (more scheduling details below). The purpose of this email is to seek advice/permission from the release team for delivering release candidates and final releases of ussuri to focal via SRU.
Historically, OpenStack releases have aligned closely with Ubuntu releases, with OpenStack generally releasing prior to Ubuntu. The alignment sometimes being so close that OpenStack packages and direct OpenStack dependencies have received an ongoing feature freeze exception to allow uploads beyond feature freeze without requiring the need to file FFe bugs. == More details on the release alignment of Focal/Ussuri == The Focal release [1] is about a month before Ussuri release [2]. The good news is the final releases of library dependencies will be available about 13 days prior to the Focal release. That means we should only have to SRU release candidates (generally we only have to upload rc1) and final releases and perhaps a few dependency fixes after Focal is released. We'll want to get as updated as possible just before Focal release (snapshots from upstream master the week before) to minimize the delta. April 03, 2020 - ussuri final release for non-client libraries April 10, 2020 - ussuri final release for client libraries April 10, 2020 - **final release library uploads April 17, 2020 - **last round of snapshot uploads April 23, 2020 - focal release April 24, 2020 - ussuri rc1 May 4, 2020 - **SRU rc1 release and any dependency fixes May 15, 2020 - ussuri release May 19, 2020 - **SRU final release and any dependency fixes [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseSchedule [2] https://releases.openstack.org/ussuri/schedule.html ** OpenStack engineering uploads/SRUs Thanks, Corey
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