Hi, Welcome back to the release countdown emails! These will be sent at major points in the 2025.1 Epoxy development cycle, which should conclude with a final release on April 2nd, 2025. Development Focus ----------------- At this stage in the release cycle, focus should be on planning the 2025.1 Epoxy development cycle, assessing 2025.1 Epoxy community goals and approving 2025.1 Epoxy specs. General Information ------------------- 2025.1 Epoxy is a 26 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/epoxy/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 2024.2 Dalmatian release are continued in 2025.1 Epoxy with a similar release model. Upcoming Deadlines & Dates -------------------------- Project Teams Gathering: October 21-25, 2024 Epoxy-1 milestone: November 14th, 2024 Előd Illés irc: elodilles @ #openstack-release