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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Doug,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">We have already tagged rc1 long ago, but ack on rc2 (we are targeting 12<sup>th</sup> at present) and ack on 20<sup>th</sup> for retag of final rc. We expect our rc2 to be final.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">If there are critical bugs that make the release doa in some way (such as upgrades, reconfigure etc), we will obviously have to tag an rc3 to then retag that as final. I don’t expect that
to happen but it is a possibility.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">-steve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">From: </span>
</b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">Doug Hellmann <doug@doughellmann.com><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>"OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, October 7, 2016 at 12:16 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>openstack-dev <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[openstack-dev] [release][ansible][fuel][kolla][puppet][tripleo] proposed deadlines for cycle-trailing projects<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">This week we tagged the final releases for projects using the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">cycle-with-milestones release model. Projects using the cycle-trailing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">model have two more weeks before their final release tags are due. In<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">the time between now and then, we expect those projects to be preparing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">and tagging release candidates.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">Just as with the milestone-based projects, we want to manage the number,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">frequency, and timing of release candidates for cycle-trailing projects.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">With that in mind, I would like to propose the following rough timeline<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">(my apologies for not preparing this sooner):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">10 Oct -- All cycle-trailing projects tag at least their first RC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">13 Oct -- Soft deadline for cycle-trailing projects to tag a final RC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">18 Oct -- Hard deadline for cycle-trailing projects to tag a final RC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">20 Oct -- Re-tag the final RCs as a final release.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">Between the first and later release candidates, any translations and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">bug fixes should be merged.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">We want to leave a few days between the last release candidate and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">the final release so that downstream consumers of the projects can<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">report issues against stable artifacts. Given the nature of most<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">of our trailing projects, and the lateness of starting to discuss<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">these deadlines, I don't think we need the same amount of time as<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">we usually set aside for the milestone-based projects. Based on<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">that assumption, I've proposed a 1 week soft goal and a 2 day hard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">deadline.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">Let me know what you think,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">Doug<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">Newton schedule:
<a href="https://releases.openstack.org/newton/schedule.html">https://releases.openstack.org/newton/schedule.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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