Welcome to the weekly countdown email. Development Focus ----------------- Teams should be focused on implementing planned work for the cycle. It is also a good time to review those plans and reprioritize anything if needed based on the what progress has been made and what looks realistic to complete in the next few weeks. General Information ------------------- Looking ahead to Stein-3, please be aware of the various freeze dates. This varies for deliverable type, starting with non-client libraries, then client libraries, then finally services. This is to ensure we have time for requirements updates and resolving any issues prior to RC. Just as a reminder, we have freeze dates ahead of the first RC in order to stabilize our requirements. Updating global requirements close to overall code freeze increases the risk of an unforeseen side effect being introduced too late in the cycle to properly fix. For this reason, we first freeze the non-client libraries that may be used by service and client libraries, followed a week later by the client libraries. This minimizes the ripple effects that have caused projects to scamble to fix last minute issues. Please keep these deadlines in mind as you work towards wrapping up feature work that may require library changes to complete. Upcoming Deadlines & Dates -------------------------- Non-client library freeze: February 28 Client library freeze: March 7 Stein-3 milestone: March 7 -- Sean McGinnis (smcginnis)