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<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid2" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">Development Focus</span></font></div>
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<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid5" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">We just passed feature freeze!
Until release branches are cut, you</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid6" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">should stop accepting featureful
changes to deliverables following the</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid7" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">cycle-with-rc release model, or
to libraries. Exceptions should be</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid8" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">discussed on separate threads on
the mailing-list, and feature freeze</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid9" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">exceptions approved by the
team's PTL.</span></font></div>
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<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid11" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">Focus should be on finding and
fixing release-critical bugs, so that</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid12" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">release candidates and final
versions of the </span><span class="author-a-m89z81zmz70z27z70zz122zz78zz85zz122zz80zab">Yoga</span><span class=""> deliverables can be</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid13" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">proposed, well ahead of the
final </span><span class="author-a-m89z81zmz70z27z70zz122zz78zz85zz122zz80zab">Yoga</span><span class=""> release date.</span></font></div>
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<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid15" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">General Information</span></font></div>
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<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid18" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">We are still finishing up
processing a few release requests, but the</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid19" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="author-a-m89z81zmz70z27z70zz122zz78zz85zz122zz80zab">Yoga</span><span class=""> release requirements are now frozen. If new library
releases are</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid20" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">needed to fix release-critical
bugs in </span><span class="author-a-m89z81zmz70z27z70zz122zz78zz85zz122zz80zab">Yoga</span><span class="">, you must request a</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid21" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">Requirements Freeze Exception
(RFE) from the requirements team before we</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid22" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">can do a new release to avoid
having something released in </span><span class="author-a-m89z81zmz70z27z70zz122zz78zz85zz122zz80zab">Yoga
</span><span class="">that</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid23" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">is not actually usable. This is
done by posting to the openstack-discuss</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid24" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">mailing list with a subject line
similar to:</span></font></div>
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<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid26" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class=""> [$PROJECT][requirements]
RFE requested for $PROJECT_LIB</span></font></div>
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<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid28" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">Include justification/reasoning
for why a RFE is needed for this lib.</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid29" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">If/when the requirements team
OKs the post-freeze update, we can then</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid30" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">process a new release.</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid31" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><br>
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<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid32" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">A soft String freeze is now in
effect, in order to let the I18N team do the</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid33" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">translation work in good
conditions. In Horizon and the various dashboard</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid34" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">plugins, you should stop
accepting changes that modify user-visible</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid35" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">strings. Exceptions should be
discussed on the mailing-list. By</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid36" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="author-a-m89z81zmz70z27z70zz122zz78zz85zz122zz80zab">March
24th, 2022</span><span class=""> this will become a hard
string freeze, with no changes</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid37" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">in user-visible strings allowed.</span></font></div>
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<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid39" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">Actions</span></font></div>
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<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid42" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">stable/</span><span class="author-a-m89z81zmz70z27z70zz122zz78zz85zz122zz80zab">yoga</span><span class=""> branches should be created soon for all
not-already-branched</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid43" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">libraries. You should expect 2-3
changes to be proposed for each: a</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid44" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">.gitreview update, a reno update
(skipped for projects not using reno),</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid45" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">and a tox.ini constraints URL
update. Please review those in priority</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid46" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">so that the branch can be
functional ASAP.</span></font></div>
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<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid48" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">The Prelude section of reno
release notes is rendered as the top level</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid49" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">overview for the release. Any
important overall messaging for </span><span class="author-a-m89z81zmz70z27z70zz122zz78zz85zz122zz80zab">Yoga</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid50" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">changes should be added there to
make sure the consumers of your release</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid51" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">notes see them.</span></font></div>
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<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid53" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">Finally, if you haven't proposed
</span><span class="author-a-m89z81zmz70z27z70zz122zz78zz85zz122zz80zab">Yoga</span><span class=""> cycle-highlights yet, you are</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid54" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">already late to the party.
Please see </span><span class="author-a-m89z81zmz70z27z70zz122zz78zz85zz122zz80zab">
our </span><span class="">email for details</span><span class="author-a-m89z81zmz70z27z70zz122zz78zz85zz122zz80zab">:</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid55" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="author-a-m89z81zmz70z27z70zz122zz78zz85zz122zz80zab
url"><a href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2022-February/027361.html" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2022-February/027361.html</a></span></font></div>
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<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid57" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">Upcoming Deadlines & Dates</span></font></div>
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<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid60" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">RC1 deadline: </span><span class="author-a-m89z81zmz70z27z70zz122zz78zz85zz122zz80zab">March
10th, 2022</span><span class=""> (R-3 week)</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid61" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">Final RC deadline: </span><span class="author-a-m89z81zmz70z27z70zz122zz78zz85zz122zz80zab">March
24th, 2022</span><span class=""> (R-1 week)</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid62" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="">Final </span><span class="author-a-m89z81zmz70z27z70zz122zz78zz85zz122zz80zab">Yoga</span><span class=""> release: </span><span class="author-a-m89z81zmz70z27z70zz122zz78zz85zz122zz80zab">March
30th, 2022</span></font></div>
<div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid63" class="ace-line"><font face="monospace"><span class="author-a-m89z81zmz70z27z70zz122zz78zz85zz122zz80zab">Next
PTG: April 4 - 8, 2022 (virtual)</span></font></div>
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<font face="monospace"><span class="author-a-m89z81zmz70z27z70zz122zz78zz85zz122zz80zab"><font face="monospace">Előd</font><font face="monospace"><font face="monospace"><span class="author-a-z81z3iy6z85zhh8v77z122zz79zoz78z"> </span></font></font><font face="monospace"><font face="monospace"><span class="author-a-z81z3iy6z85zhh8v77z122zz79zoz78z"><span class="author-a-z81z3iy6z85zhh8v77z122zz79zoz78z"><font face="monospace">Illés<br>
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elodilles</span></font></font></span></font></div>
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