Development Focus

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The Release Candidate (RC) deadline is next Thursday, March 14th, 2024.

Work should be focused on fixing any release-critical bugs.

General Information

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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/2024.1

branch will be cut. This branch will track the 2024.1 Caracal release.

Once stable/2024.1 has been created, the master branch will be ready to

switch to 2024.2 Dalmatian development. While the master branch will no

longer be feature-frozen, please prioritize any work necessary for

completing 2024.1 Caracal plans.  Release-critical bugfixes will need to

be merged in the master branch first, then backported to the

stable/2024.1 branch before a new release candidate can be proposed.

Actions

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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/2024.1 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 2024.2 Dalmatian) 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

2024.1 Caracal release so far.

Finally, now is a good time to finalize release highlights. Release

highlights help shape the messaging around the release and make sure

that your work is properly represented.

Upcoming Deadlines & Dates

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RC1 deadline: March 14th, 2024 (R-3 week)

Final RC deadline: March 28th, 2024 (R-1 week)

Final 2024.1 Caracal release: April 3rd, 2024

Dalmatian PTG: April 8-12, 2024

Előd Illés

irc: elodilles @ #openstack-release