Hey everyone,
We are getting close to being done with the Victoria development cycle. This is one more reminder that there are just a few days left to finish up any critical work.
This Thursday, October 8, is the deadline for any new release candidate releases for any cycle-based services. After Thursday, no new releases should occur for Victoria development until the final coordinated release next Wednesday.
After this Thursday, the release team will be proposing a patch to re-tag the last RC release of each deliverable to be the final version for Victoria. We encourage PTLs to +1 this patch to capture that metadata with the release.
This is not the time to -1 the patch and ask for more time to push anything final in. After this Thursday, we should basically be done with Victoria development. Only if there is a very, very critical issue discovered will we allow any updates after Thursday and before the final release next Wednesday. Any other bugfixes and important updates will need to wait until after next week's coordinated release to be part of a stable release off of the stable/victoria branch.
Please let us know if you have any questions as we wrap things up.
--- Sean McGinnis and the entire Release Management Team