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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">I wanted to send out another reminder that the deadline for cycle highlights is the end of the <strong>R-5 week on September 3 </strong>(see below email for more details). I look forward to seeing them :)</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Cheers,</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">-----Original Message-----<br />From: "helena@openstack.org" <helena@openstack.org><br />Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2021 2:19pm<br />To: "OpenStack Discuss" <openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org><br />Subject: [PTLs][release] Xena Cycle Highlights<br /><br /></p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #212121;">Hello Everyone!</span><br style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #212121;" /><br style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #212121;" /><span style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #212121;">It's that time of the year once again! It's time to start thinking about calling out </span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #212121;">'</span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgba(251, 246, 167, 0.5); outline: transparent dashed 1px; color: #212121;">cycle</span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #212121;">-</span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgba(251, 246, 167, 0.5); outline: transparent dashed 1px; color: #212121;">highlights'</span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #212121;"> in your deliverables!</span><br style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-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<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #212121; font-size: 13px;">As PTLs, you probably get many</span><span style="color: #212121; 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: #212121; font-size: 13px;">cycle</span><span style="color: #212121; font-size: 13px;"> by various parties (marketing, management, journalists, etc) </span><span style="color: #212121; font-size: 13px;">asking for </span><span style="background-color: rgba(251, 246, 167, 0.5); outline: transparent dashed 1px; color: #212121; font-size: 13px;">highlights</span><span style="color: #212121; font-size: 13px;"> of what is new and what significant changes are coming </span><span style="color: #212121; 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: Ussuri[1], V<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">ictoria</span>[2].</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The deadline for cycle highlights is the end of the R-5 week [3] on September 3.</strong><br style="color: #212121; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #212121; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #212121; font-size: 13px;">How To Reminder:</span></div>
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