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Development Focus
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The Release Candidate (RC) deadline is next Thursday, September 26th. Work
should be focused on fixing any release-critical bugs.

General Information
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All deliverables released under a cycle-with-rc model should have a first
release candidate by the end of the week, from which a stable/train branch will
be cut. This branch will track the Train release.

Once stable/train has been created, master will will be ready to switch to
Ussuri development. While master will no longer be feature-frozen, please
prioritize any work necessary for completing Train plans. Release-critical
bugfixes will need to be merged in the master branch first, then backported to
the stable/train branch before a new release candidate can be proposed.

Actions
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Early in the week, the release team will be proposing RC1 patches for all
cycle-with-rc projects, using the latest commit from master. If your team is
ready to go for cutting RC1, please let us know by leaving a +1 on these
patches.

If there are still a few more patches needed before RC1, you can -1 the patch
and update it later in the week with the new commit hash you would like to use.
Remember, stable/train branches will be created with this, so you will want to
make sure you have what you need included to avoid needing to backport changes
from master (which will technically then be Ussuri) to this stable branch for
any additional RCs before the final release.

The release team will also be proposing releases for any deliverable following
a cycle-with-intermediary model that has not produced any Train release so far.

Upcoming Deadlines & Dates
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RC1 deadline: September 26 (R-3 week)
Final RC deadline: October 10 (R-1 week)
Final Train release: October 16
Forum+PTG at Shanghai summit: November 4