<div dir="ltr"><div><div id="gmail-magicdomid2" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-m0z81z4r9z66zz75zz70zz86zz70zz87zjdhb">Development Focus</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid3" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-m0z81z4r9z66zz75zz70zz86zz70zz87zjdhb">-----------------</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-m0z81z4r9z66zz75zz70zz86zz70zz87zjdhb">We just passed feature freeze! Until release branches are cut, you</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid6" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-m0z81z4r9z66zz75zz70zz86zz70zz87zjdhb">should stop accepting featureful changes to deliverables following the</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid7" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-m0z81z4r9z66zz75zz70zz86zz70zz87zjdhb">cycle-with-rc release model, or to libraries. Exceptions should be</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid8" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-m0z81z4r9z66zz75zz70zz86zz70zz87zjdhb">discussed on separate threads on the mailing-list, and feature freeze</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid9" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-m0z81z4r9z66zz75zz70zz86zz70zz87zjdhb">exceptions approved by the team's PTL.</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-m0z81z4r9z66zz75zz70zz86zz70zz87zjdhb">Focus should be on finding and fixing release-critical bugs, so that</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid12" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-m0z81z4r9z66zz75zz70zz86zz70zz87zjdhb">release candidates and final versions of the Xena deliverables can be</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid13" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-m0z81z4r9z66zz75zz70zz86zz70zz87zjdhb">proposed, well ahead of the final Xena release date (06 October, 2021).</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-m0z81z4r9z66zz75zz70zz86zz70zz87zjdhb">General Information</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid16" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-m0z81z4r9z66zz75zz70zz86zz70zz87zjdhb">-------------------</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid17" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid18" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-m0z81z4r9z66zz75zz70zz86zz70zz87zjdhb">We are still finishing up processing a few release requests, but the</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid19" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-m0z81z4r9z66zz75zz70zz86zz70zz87zjdhb">Xena release requirements are now frozen. If new library releases are</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid20" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-m0z81z4r9z66zz75zz70zz86zz70zz87zjdhb">needed to fix release-critical bugs in Xena, you must request a</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid21" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-m0z81z4r9z66zz75zz70zz86zz70zz87zjdhb">Requirements Freeze Exception (RFE) from the requirements team before we</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid22" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-m0z81z4r9z66zz75zz70zz86zz70zz87zjdhb">can do a new release to avoid having something released in Xena that</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid23" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-m0z81z4r9z66zz75zz70zz86zz70zz87zjdhb">is not actually usable. This is done by posting to the openstack-discuss</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid24" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-m0z81z4r9z66zz75zz70zz86zz70zz87zjdhb">mailing list with a subject line similar to:</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid25" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid26" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-m0z81z4r9z66zz75zz70zz86zz70zz87zjdhb">        [$PROJECT][requirements] RFE requested for $PROJECT_LIB</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid27" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid28" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-m0z81z4r9z66zz75zz70zz86zz70zz87zjdhb">Include justification/reasoning for why a RFE is needed for this lib.</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid29" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-m0z81z4r9z66zz75zz70zz86zz70zz87zjdhb">If/when the requirements team OKs the post-freeze update, we can then</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid30" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-m0z81z4r9z66zz75zz70zz86zz70zz87zjdhb">process a new release.</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid31" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid32" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-m0z81z4r9z66zz75zz70zz86zz70zz87zjdhb">A soft String freeze is now in effect, in order to let the I18N team do the</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid33" class="gmail-a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r="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Hervé Beraud</div><div>Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat</div><div>irc: hberaud</div><div><a href="https://github.com/4383/" target="_blank">https://github.com/4383/</a></div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/4383hberaud" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/4383hberaud</a><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>