Hi, Welcome back to the release countdown emails! These will be sent at major points in the 2023.2 Bobcat development cycle, which should conclude with a final release on October 4th, 2023. Development Focus ----------------- At this stage in the release cycle, focus should be on planning the 2023.2 Bobcat development cycle and approving 2023.2 Bobcat specs. General Information ------------------- 2023.2 Bobcat is a 28 weeks long development cycle. In case you haven't seen it yet, please take a look over the schedule for this release: https://releases.openstack.org/bobcat/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 2023.1 Antelope release are continued in 2023.2 Bobcat with a similar release model. Upcoming Deadlines & Dates -------------------------- Bobcat-1 milestone: May 11th, 2023 OpenInfra Summit + PTG Vancouver 2023 - June 13-15, 2023 Előd Illés irc: elodilles @ #openstack-release