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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thierry Carrez [mailto:thierry at openstack.org]
> Sent: Monday, August 24, 2015 1:47 PM
> To: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [oslo][release] oslo freeze this week?
> 
> On Aug 23, 2015, at 5:51 PM, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net>
> wrote:
> > On 24 August 2015 at 09:28, Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com>
> wrote:
> >> I have marked on my version of the release schedule that we will have
> the Oslo libraries frozen this week. Are we still planning to do that? We
> should figure out what that means as far as creating stable branches and
> version caps and all of those things that caused us so much trouble last cycle.
> >
> > We're not capping anything. We're depending on constraints to carry us
> > forward. The constraints for tox stuff works but isn't widely
> > deployed: it is partly waiting on a governance change... I think we
> > should use this as a forcing function for projects to opt-in to that.
> > grenade uses constraints so only stable branches should be affected by
> > that.
> 
> Back in YVR we had the following process drafted on a whiteboard:
> 
> 1. Enable master->stable cross-check
> 2. Release Oslo, make stable branches for Oslo
> 2.1 Converge constraints
> 3. liberty-3 / FF / soft requirements freeze 4. hard requirements freeze 5.
> RC1 / make stable branches for services 6. Branch requirements, disable
> cross-check 7. Unfreeze requirements
> 
> Is there anything new that makes this proposed process invalid ?
> 
> If not, since (3) is Thursday next week, that means we need to cover the first
> 3 items in the coming week ?
> 
> --
> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
> 

That does sound absolutely reasonable.

I'd like to add/ask where in there we have the last point to cut rest of the libs? That should probably happen by 3. As well?

- Erno