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A few reminders about design summit sessions for Heat...

* The deadline for proposals is the 20th of April, i.e. the end of this 
week. Get your proposals in now.

* The Design Summit isn't the place to introduce feature proposals. The 
place to introduce proposals is the mailing list and there's nothing 
stopping you from doing it right now. The Design Summit is a place for 
the community to come to a consensus on the details of a proposal that 
everyone is already familiar with.

* The Design Summit is not the signal to start work on Juno. The signal 
to start work on Juno is the release of Icehouse (that happened today, 
BTW). Remember, the Juno feature proposal freeze is only 4 months away.

* We have 8 slots, the same as in Portland but down from 9 in Hong Kong. 
(Every project is getting fewer slots than in Hong Kong.) It is 
inevitable that some very good/important proposals will be squeezed out :(

* Unfortunately the OpenStack system vests all rights to decide the 
schedule in the PTL, and the timeframe is too tight to allow for a lot 
of consultation - we're supposed to have a schedule before the next 
project meeting. (This is but one of many ways in which the PTL system 
needs to be reformed IMO, but that is a topic for another day.) To try 
to work around this, I have posted a rough ordering of sessions in an 
etherpad, along with a list of possible changes:

https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/heat-juno-design-summit-schedule

Please vote on those possible changes, or suggest others that you would 
like to see. I'll update the etherpad early next week with the final 
list of proposals. (Or someone else could do it! That's the great thing 
about an etherpad ;)

* If you're not happy with where your session proposal ended up on the 
list, the best thing you can do is flesh it out as much as possible and 
start the necessary design conversations on the mailing list.

cheers,
Zane.