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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Folks on the Trove team,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas">I’ve certainly learnt a lot of things going through the Mitaka release process thus far, and I’m sure there are more things that I will learn as well. But, I want to send this to all so that we don’t ‘learn’
the same things again in Newton.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Consolas"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:Consolas">The release calendar is sent out way in advance of the release. Here is the Newton release schedule[1].<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Consolas"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:Consolas">Some important things to remember:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Consolas"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:Consolas">There is a deadline for “Final release for client libraries”. That came at R-5 in Mitaka[2]. On that date, any features that we have in python-troveclient IS the final set for the release. You
can have bug fixes after that date but not new features.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Consolas"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">b.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:Consolas">Feature freeze exceptions only cover things OTHER THAN client libraries. If you have a change that involves client and server side stuff, the deadline for “Final release for client libraries”
does not get moved for your FFE’ed things.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Consolas"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">c.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:Consolas">Once RC1 is tagged, you have a branch for the release. Therefore if you have changes after RC1, remember that they are backports from master onto stable/newton (now stable/mitaka).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Consolas"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">d.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:Consolas">RC1 and all of the other tags have to be dropped on openstack/trove, openstack/python-troveclient and openstack/trove-dashboard.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-family:Consolas"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Consolas"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:Consolas">We will have to follow some process to identify the things that we want to get merged at each stage of the process. We used the starredby: thing this time around, as we’ve done in releases past.
We may have to figure something else out, I’m looking to see if we can tag reviews but so far I haven’t found anything.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Those are some of the things I’ve learned and I wanted to make a note of these for myself, but figured I may as well share with the team.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas">-amrith<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas">[1] <a href="http://releases.openstack.org/newton/schedule.html">
http://releases.openstack.org/newton/schedule.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas">[2] <a href="http://releases.openstack.org/mitaka/schedule.html">
http://releases.openstack.org/mitaka/schedule.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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