Development Focus
      -----------------
      
      The Release Candidate (RC) deadline is next Thursday, March 10th,
      2022. Work
      should be focused on fixing any release-critical bugs.
      
      General Information
      -------------------
      
      All deliverables released under a cycle-with-rc model should have
      a first
      release candidate by the end of the week, from which a stable/yoga
      branch will be cut. This branch will track the Yoga release.
      
      Once stable/yoga has been created, the master branch will be ready
      to
      switch to Zed development. While the master branch will no longer
      be feature-frozen, please prioritize any work necessary for
      completing
      Yoga plans.  Release-critical bugfixes will need to be merged in
      the
      master branch first, then backported to the stable/yoga branch
      before
      a new release candidate can be proposed.
      
      Actions
      -------
      
      Early in the week, the release team will be proposing RC1 patches
      for all
      cycle-with-rc projects, using the latest commit from the master
      branch.
      If your team is ready to go for cutting RC1, please let us know by
      leaving a +1 on these patches.
      
      If there are still a few more patches needed before RC1, you can
      -1 the
      patch and update it later in the week with the new commit hash you
      would
      like to use. Remember, stable/yoga branches will be created with
      this,
      so you will want to make sure you have what you need included to
      avoid
      needing to backport changes from the master branch (which will
      technically then be Zed) to this stable branch for any
      additional RCs before the final release.
      
      The release team will also be proposing releases for any
      deliverable
      following a cycle-with-intermediary model that has not produced
      any Yoga
      release so far.
      
      Finally, now is a good time to finalize release highlights if you
      have not
      already done so. Release highlights help shape the messaging
      around the
      release and make sure that your work is properly represented.
      
      Upcoming Deadlines & Dates
      --------------------------
      
      RC1 deadline: March 10th, 2022 (R-3 week)
      Final RC deadline: March 24th, 2022 (R-1 week)
      Final Yoga release: March 30th, 2022
      Next PTG: April 4 - 8, 2022 (virtual)
    
    
    
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