<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hello everyone,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Ironic published its first Icehouse release candidate yesterday. The list of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">bugs fixed since feature freeze and the RC1 tarball are available at:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<a href="https://launchpad.net/ironic/icehouse/icehouse-rc1" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">https://launchpad.net/ironic/icehouse/icehouse-rc1</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Unless release-critical issues are found that warrant a release</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">candidate respin, this RC1 will be formally released as the 2014.1 final</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">version on </span><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="">April 17</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">. You are therefore strongly encouraged to test and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">validate this tarball.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Alternatively, you can directly test the milestone-proposed branch at:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<a href="https://github.com/openstack/ironic/tree/milestone-proposed" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">https://github.com/openstack/ironic/tree/milestone-proposed</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">If you find an issue that could be considered release-critical, please</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">file it at:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic/+filebug" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic/+filebug</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">and tag it *icehouse-</span><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">rc</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">-potential* to bring it to the release crew's</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">attention.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Note that the "master" branch of Ironic is now open for Juno</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">development, and feature freeze restrictions no longer apply there.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>Many thanks should be directed to Thierry for his assistance in making the release happen, and for answering my endless stream of questions as I learn [*].<br>

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Regards,</span><br><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Devananda</span></div><div>

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">[*] and for the excellent announcement template which I have shamelessly copied.</span></div>

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