Focus ----- This week is the Release Candidate target deadline for all milestone-based projects. Only bug fixes and previously agreed feature freeze extensions should be merged into master branches. The RC1 is only 1 week after feature freeze, which is different from our usual 2 week freeze period, so please stay on top of reviews and minimize FFEs accordingly.
The requirements list for Ocata is frozen. We will reopen it after all of the cycle-with-milestones projects have stable branches created. Release Tasks ------------- Review the changes to your projects over the Ocata cycle and ensure that any necessary release notes are present. Optionally, add "prelude" release notes to summarize the work that has been done and highlight anything of special importance. All projects following the cycle-with-milestones or cycle-with-intermediary release models should prepare a release candidate by the deadline on Thursday 2 Feb. Even cycle-with-intermediary projects should consider this release a candidate, especially for those projects who have not released at all yet this cycle. Projects following the cycle-with-milestones model should propose a patch to openstack/releases to create a 0rc1 tag and a new stable/ocata branch. Unlike the milestone tags, with release candidates it is best to wait until the deadline when the project is stable. This avoids having several release candidates tagged close together, which discourages users from testing early candidates. Projects following the cycle-with-intermediary release model should also include the stable/ocata branch with their release. Library deliverables that have been frozen will need a separate branch request. Projects following the release-independent model and tagging releases outside of the automation should review the history of the deliverable in openstack/releases and update it, if necessary. General Notes ------------- After this release cycle I will be reviewing the list of cycle-based projects that do not prepare releases and providing that information to the TC for a discussion about whether those projects should be considered inactive, and therefore should be removed from the official list. All deliverables saw at least one release for Newton, and I hope we have the same results for Ocata. The deadline for documenting community wide goal completion artifacts is the end of the cycle. Please update the Ocata goals page with any information needed to understand how the goal affected your project, and whether there is any work left to be done. Important Dates --------------- 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
