Development Focus -----------------

We are entering the last weeks of the Zed development cycle. From now until the final release, we'll send a countdown email like this every week.

It's probably a good time for teams to take stock of their library and client work that needs to be completed yet. The non-client library freeze is coming up, followed closely by the client lib freeze. Please plan accordingly to avoid any last minute rushes to get key functionality in.

General Information -------------------

Next week is the Extra-ATC freeze, in preparation for elections. All contributions to OpenStack are valuable, but some are not expressed as Gerrit code changes. Please list active contributors to your project team who do not have a code contribution this cycle, and therefore won't automatically be considered an Active Technical Contributor and allowed to vote. This is done by adding extra-atcs to https://opendev.org/openstack/governance/src/branch/master/reference/project... before the Extra-ATC freeze on August 18th, 2022.

A quick reminder of the upcoming freeze dates. Those vary depending on deliverable type:

* General libraries (except client libraries) need to have their last feature release before Non-client library freeze (August 25th, 2022). Their stable branches are cut early.

* Client libraries (think python-*client libraries) need to have their last feature release before Client library freeze (September 1st, 2022)

* Deliverables following a cycle-with-rc model (that would be most services) observe a Feature freeze on that same date, September 1st, 2022. Any feature addition beyond that date should be discussed on the mailing-list and get PTL approval. After feature freeze, cycle-with-rc deliverables need to produce a first release candidate (and a stable branch) before RC1 deadline (September 15th, 2022)

* Deliverables following cycle-with-intermediary model can release as necessary, but in all cases before Final RC deadline (September 29th, 2022)

Finally, now is also a good time to start planning what highlights you want for your deliverables in the cycle highlights. The deadline to submit an initial version for those is set to Feature freeze (September 1st, 2022).

Background on cycle-highlights: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-December/125613.html Project Team Guide, Cycle-Highlights: https://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/release-management.html#cycle-... knelson [at] openstack.org/diablo_rojo on IRC is available if you need help selecting or writing your highlights

Upcoming Deadlines & Dates --------------------------

Extra-ATC freeze: August 18th, 2022 (R-7 week) Non-client library freeze: August 25th, 2022 (R-6 week) Client library freeze: September 1st, 2022 (R-5 week) Zed-3 milestone: September 1st, 2022 (R-5 week) Next PTG: October 17-21, 2022 (virtual PTG!!!)

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