Development Focus
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Work on libraries should be
wrapping up, in preparation for the various
library-related deadlines coming
up. Now is a good time to make decisions
on deferring feature work to the
next development cycle in order to be
able to focus on finishing
already-started feature work.
General Information
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We are now getting close to the
end of the cycle, and will be gradually
freezing feature work on the
various deliverables that make up the
OpenStack release.
This coming week is the deadline
for general libraries (except client
libraries): their last feature
release needs to happen before "Non-client
library freeze" on February
17th, 2022. Only bugfixes releases will
be allowed
beyond this point.
When requesting those library
releases, you can also include the
stable/yoga branching request with the review (as an example,
see the
"branches" section here:
In the next weeks we will have
deadlines for:
* Client libraries (think
python-*client libraries), which need to have
their last feature release
before "Client library freeze" (February
24th, 2022)
* Deliverables following a
cycle-with-rc model (that would be most
services), which observe a
Feature freeze on that same date, February
24th, 2022.
Any feature addition beyond that
date should be discussed on the
mailing-list and get PTL
approval.
As we are getting to the point
of creating stable/yoga branches, this
would be a good point for teams
to review membership in their
$project-stable-maint groups.
Once the stable/yoga branches are cut
for a repo, the ability to
approve any necessary backports into those
branches for Yoga will be limited to the members of that stable team.
If there are any questions about
stable policy or stable team membership,
please reach out in the
#openstack-stable channel.
Upcoming Deadlines & Dates
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Non-client library freeze: February
17th, 2022 (R-6 week)
Client library freeze: February
24th, 2022 (R-5 week)
Yoga-3 milestone: February
24th, 2022 (R-5 week)
Cycle Highlights Due: February
24th, 2022 (R-5 week)
Yoga final release: March
30th, 2022
Next PTG:
April 4 - 8, 2022 (virtual)
Előd Illés
irc:
elodilles