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Manila reached its liberty feature freeze yesterday thanks to the heroic 
work of the last few submitters and a few core reviewers who worked over 
the weekend! All of the features targeted for Liberty have been merged 
and nothing was booted out.

I would like to say that this has been a very painful feature freeze for 
many of us, and some mistakes were made which should not be repeated. I 
have some ideas for changes we can implement in the Mitaka timeframe to 
avoid the need for heroics at the last minute. In particular, large new 
features need a deadline substantially earlier than the ordinary FPF 
deadline, at least for WIP patches to be upstream (this was xyang's idea 
and it makes tons of sense). We can discuss the detail of how we want to 
run Mitaka at future meetings or in Tokyo, but I wanted to acknowledge 
that we didn't do it a good job this time.

Now that we're past feature freeze we need to drive aggressively to fix 
all the bugs because the RC1 target date has not moved (Sept 17). This 
is all the more important because our L-3 milestone is not really usable 
for testing purposes and we need a release that QA-oriented people can 
hammer on. This also means the client patches related to new features 
all need to get merged and release in the next week too.

Also the CI-system reporting deadline blew by last week during the 
gate-breakage-hell and I haven't had time to go check that all the CI 
systems which should be reporting actually are. That's something I'll be 
doing today and I'll post the driver removal patches for any system not 
reporting.

-Ben Swartzlander