<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Hello Everyone!</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Its time to start thinking about calling out </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">'</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(251,246,167,0.5);outline:transparent dashed 1px;color:rgb(33,33,33)">cycle</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">-</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(251,246,167,0.5);outline:transparent dashed 1px;color:rgb(33,33,33)">highlights</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">' in your deliverables!</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><br></span><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">As PTLs, you probably get many</span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"> pings towards the end of every release </span><span style="background-color:rgba(251,246,167,0.5);outline:transparent dashed 1px;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">cycle</span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"> by various parties (marketing, management, journalists, etc) </span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">asking for </span><span style="background-color:rgba(251,246,167,0.5);outline:transparent dashed 1px;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">highlights</span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"> of what is new and what significant changes are coming </span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">in the new release. By putting them all in the same place it makes them easy to reference because they get compiled into a pretty website like this from the last few releases: Rocky[1], Stein[2], Train[3].</span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">We don't need a fully fledged marketing message, just a few </span><span style="background-color:rgba(251,246,167,0.5);outline:transparent dashed 1px;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">highlights (3-4 ideally)</span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">, </span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">from each project team. Looking through your release notes might be a good place to start. </span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b><br></b></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>The deadline for cycle highlights is the end of the R-5 week [4] on April 10th.</b><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">How To Reminder:</span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">-------------------------</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">Simply add them to the deliverables/train/$PROJECT.y</span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">aml </span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">in the openstack/releases repo like this:</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">   </span><span style="background-color:rgba(251,246,167,0.5);outline:transparent dashed 1px;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">cycle</span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">-</span><span style="background-color:rgba(251,246,167,0.5);outline:transparent dashed 1px;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">highlights</span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">:</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">     - Introduced new service to use unused host to mine bitcoin.</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">The formatting options for this tag are the same as what you are probably used </span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">to with Reno release notes.</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">Also, you can check on the formatting of the output by either running locally:</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">   tox -e docs</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">And then checking the resulting doc/build/html/train/highligh</span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">ts.html file or </span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">the output of the build-openstack-sphinx-docs job under </span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">html/train/</span><span style="background-color:rgba(251,246,167,0.5);outline:transparent dashed 1px;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">highlights</span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">.html.</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><font color="#212121">Can't wait to see you all have accomplished this release!</font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#212121"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#212121">Thanks :)</font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#212121"><br></font><div><font color="#212121">-Kendall Nelson (diablo_rojo)</font></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#212121"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#212121">[1] <a href="https://releases.openstack.org/rocky/highlights.html" target="_blank">https://releases.openstack.org/rocky/highlights.html</a> </font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#212121">[2] </font><a href="https://releases.openstack.org/stein/highlights.html" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" target="_blank">https://releases.openstack.org/stein/highlights.html</a></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">[3] <a href="https://releases.openstack.org/train/highlights.html" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" target="_blank">https://releases.openstack.org/train/highlights.html</a></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#212121">[4] </font><a href="https://releases.openstack.org/train/schedule.html#t-cycle-highlights" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" target="_blank">htt</a><a href="https://releases.openstack.org/ussuri/schedule.html" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" target="_blank">https://releases.openstack.org/ussuri/schedule.html</a></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div></div>