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<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid118" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">Development Focus</span></font></div>
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<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid120" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">Work on libraries should be
wrapping up, in preparation for the various</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid121" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">library-related deadlines coming
up. Now is a good time to make decisions</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid122" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">on deferring feature work to the
next development cycle in order to be</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid123" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">able to focus on finishing
already-started feature work.</span></font></div>
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<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid124" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">General Information</span></font></div>
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<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid126" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">We are now getting close to the
end of the cycle, and will be gradually</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid127" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">freezing feature work on the
various deliverables that make up the</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid128" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">OpenStack release.</span></font></div>
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<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid129" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">This coming week is the deadline
for general libraries (except client</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid130" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">libraries): their last feature
release needs to happen before "Non-client</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid159" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">library freeze" on </span><span class="author-a-6z90zz66zaz72zdz68ziz78zx4f71z81z2">February
17th, 2022</span><span class="">. Only bugfixes releases will
be allowed</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid132" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">beyond this point.</span></font></div>
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<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid133" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">When requesting those library
releases, you can also include the</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid163" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">stable/</span><span class="author-a-6z90zz66zaz72zdz68ziz78zx4f71z81z2">yoga</span><span class=""> branching request with the review (as an example,
see the</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid135" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">"branches" section here:</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid136" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class=" url"><a href="https://opendev.org/openstack/releases/src/branch/master/deliverables/pike/os-brick.yaml#n2" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://opendev.org/openstack/releases/src/branch/master/deliverables/pike/os-brick.yaml#n2</a></span></font></div>
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<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid137" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">In the next weeks we will have
deadlines for:</span></font></div>
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<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid138" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">* Client libraries (think
python-*client libraries), which need to have</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid164" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">their last feature release
before "Client library freeze" (</span><span class="author-a-6z90zz66zaz72zdz68ziz78zx4f71z81z2">February
24th, 2022</span><span class="">)</span></font></div>
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<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid140" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">* Deliverables following a
cycle-with-rc model (that would be most</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid165" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">services), which observe a
Feature freeze on that same date, </span><span class="author-a-6z90zz66zaz72zdz68ziz78zx4f71z81z2">February
24th, 2022</span><span class="">.</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid142" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">Any feature addition beyond that
date should be discussed on the</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid143" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">mailing-list and get PTL
approval.</span></font></div>
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<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid169" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">As we are getting to the point
of creating stable/</span><span class="author-a-6z90zz66zaz72zdz68ziz78zx4f71z81z2">yoga</span><span class=""> branches, this</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid145" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">would be a good point for teams
to review membership in their</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid175" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">$project-stable-maint groups.
Once the stable/</span><span class="author-a-6z90zz66zaz72zdz68ziz78zx4f71z81z2">yoga</span><span class=""> branches are cut</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid147" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">for a repo, the ability to
approve any necessary backports into those</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid179" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">branches for </span><span class="author-a-6z90zz66zaz72zdz68ziz78zx4f71z81z2">Yoga</span><span class=""> will be limited to the members of that stable team.</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid149" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">If there are any questions about
stable policy or stable team membership,</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid150" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">please reach out in the
#openstack-stable channel.</span></font></div>
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<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid151" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">Upcoming Deadlines & Dates</span></font></div>
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<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid193" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">Non-client library freeze: </span><span class="author-a-6z90zz66zaz72zdz68ziz78zx4f71z81z2">February
17th, 2022</span><span class=""> (R-6 week)</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid180" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">Client library freeze: </span><span class="author-a-6z90zz66zaz72zdz68ziz78zx4f71z81z2">February
24th, 2022</span><span class=""> (R-5 week)</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid186" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="author-a-6z90zz66zaz72zdz68ziz78zx4f71z81z2">Yoga</span><span class="">-3 milestone: </span><span class="author-a-6z90zz66zaz72zdz68ziz78zx4f71z81z2">February
24th, 2022</span><span class=""> (R-5 week)</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid182" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">Cycle Highlights Due: </span><span class="author-a-6z90zz66zaz72zdz68ziz78zx4f71z81z2">February
24th, 2022</span><span class=""> (R-5 week)</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid191" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="author-a-6z90zz66zaz72zdz68ziz78zx4f71z81z2">Yoga</span><span class=""> final release: </span><span class="author-a-6z90zz66zaz72zdz68ziz78zx4f71z81z2">March
30th, 2022</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid192" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="author-a-6z90zz66zaz72zdz68ziz78zx4f71z81z2">Next PTG:
April 4 - 8, 2022 (virtual)</span></font><font face="monospace"><br>
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