<div dir="ltr"><div><div id="gmail-magicdomid2" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-k1tz122zz72z1z72zuz79zez67zk3az75zz86z">Development Focus</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid3" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-k1tz122zz72z1z72zuz79zez67zk3az75zz86z">-----------------</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid4" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid5" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zkhz65zz74zhlz69zz75zchz65zvyz70zm">The Release Candidate (RC) deadline is next Thursday, 25 March, 2021. Work</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid6" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zkhz65zz74zhlz69zz75zchz65zvyz70zm">should be focused on fixing any release-critical bugs.</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid7" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid8" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zkhz65zz74zhlz69zz75zchz65zvyz70zm">General Information</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid9" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zkhz65zz74zhlz69zz75zchz65zvyz70zm">-------------------</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid10" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid11" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zkhz65zz74zhlz69zz75zchz65zvyz70zm">All deliverables released under a cycle-with-rc model should have a first</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid12" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zkhz65zz74zhlz69zz75zchz65zvyz70zm">release candidate by the end of the week, from which a stable/wallaby</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid13" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zkhz65zz74zhlz69zz75zchz65zvyz70zm">branch will be cut. This branch will track the Wallaby release.</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid14" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid15" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zkhz65zz74zhlz69zz75zchz65zvyz70zm">Once stable/wallaby has been created, </span><span class="gmail-author-a-2e9r8wjyqz88zz70z48z80z2z78z">the </span><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zkhz65zz74zhlz69zz75zchz65zvyz70zm">master</span><span class="gmail-author-a-2e9r8wjyqz88zz70z48z80z2z78z"> branch</span><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zkhz65zz74zhlz69zz75zchz65zvyz70zm"> will be ready to switch</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid16" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zkhz65zz74zhlz69zz75zchz65zvyz70zm">to Xena development. While </span><span class="gmail-author-a-2e9r8wjyqz88zz70z48z80z2z78z">the </span><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zkhz65zz74zhlz69zz75zchz65zvyz70zm">master</span><span class="gmail-author-a-2e9r8wjyqz88zz70z48z80z2z78z"> branch</span><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zkhz65zz74zhlz69zz75zchz65zvyz70zm"> will no longer be feature-frozen,</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid17" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zkhz65zz74zhlz69zz75zchz65zvyz70zm">please prioritize any work necessary for completing Wallaby plans.</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid18" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zkhz65zz74zhlz69zz75zchz65zvyz70zm">Release-critical bugfixes will need to be merged in the master branch</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid19" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zkhz65zz74zhlz69zz75zchz65zvyz70zm">first, then backported to the stable/wallaby branch before a new release</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid20" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zkhz65zz74zhlz69zz75zchz65zvyz70zm">candidate can be proposed.</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid21" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid22" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zkhz65zz74zhlz69zz75zchz65zvyz70zm">Actions</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid23" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zkhz65zz74zhlz69zz75zchz65zvyz70zm">-------</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid24" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid25" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zkhz65zz74zhlz69zz75zchz65zvyz70zm">Early in the week, the release team will be proposing RC1 patches for all</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid26" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zkhz65zz74zhlz69zz75zchz65zvyz70zm">cycle-with-rc projects, using the latest commit from </span><span class="gmail-author-a-2e9r8wjyqz88zz70z48z80z2z78z">the </span><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zkhz65zz74zhlz69zz75zchz65zvyz70zm">master</span><span class="gmail-author-a-2e9r8wjyqz88zz70z48z80z2z78z"> branch</span><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zkhz65zz74zhlz69zz75zchz65zvyz70zm">. If your team</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid27" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zkhz65zz74zhlz69zz75zchz65zvyz70zm">is ready to go for cutting RC1, please let us know by leaving a +1 on these</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid28" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z68zkhz65zz74zhlz69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