First release is coming fast and starting today we are in freeze period, but given the current patch queue[3] I propose we start with soft-freeze until end of day Friday.
Status as of Monday morning: I was rechecking patches with +2 which were hit by random SSH timeouts bugs 1323658 and 1253896. Not all managed to pass through the gate before the whole OpenStack CI got blocked on a regression in Sunday evening setuptools release(s): https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/issue/213/regression-setuptools-37-ins... I hope setuptools will be fixed today so we can stick to the schedule and release this Thursday, to avoid conflict with Juno-1 next week.
Soft-freeze is to allow patches currently under review to get merged but no new patches should be accepted. As always, feel free to raise exception requests on stable-maint list.
Does anyone has any exception proposals? Cheers, Alan