Welcome back to the release countdown emails! These will be sent at major points in the 2024.1 Caracal development cycle, which should conclude with a final release on April 3, 2024. Development Focus ----------------- At this stage in the release cycle, focus should be on planning the 2024.1 Caracal development cycle, assessing 2024.1 Caracal community goals and approving 2024.1 Caracal specs. General Information ------------------- 2024.1 Caracal is a 26 weeks development cycle. In case you haven't seen it yet, please take a look over the schedule for this release: https://releases.openstack.org/ <https://releases.openstack.org/caracal/schedule.html>caracal <https://releases.openstack.org/caracal/schedule.html>/schedule.html <https://releases.openstack.org/caracal/schedule.html> By default, the team PTL is responsible for handling the release cycle and approving release requests. This task can (and probably should) be delegated to release liaisons. Now is a good time to review release liaison information for your team and make sure it is up to date: https://opendev.org/openstack/releases/src/branch/master/data/release_liaiso... By default, all your team deliverables from the 2023.2 Bobcat release are continued in 2024.1 Caracal with a similar release model. Upcoming Deadlines & Dates -------------------------- Virtual Caracal PTG: October 23-27 2024.1 Caracal-1 milestone: November 16, 2023 -- Hervé Beraud Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat irc: hberaud https://github.com/4383/