Open Stack

Welcome to the extended Festivus edition of the countdown email. And now you're
gonna hear about it.

Development Focus
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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
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The deadline for extra ATC's is coming up on January 12. If there is someone
that contributes to your project in a way that is not reflected by the usual
metrics, this is the last chance to have them recognized and therefore able to
vote in PTL elections. Extra-ATCs can be added by submitting an update to the
reference/projects.yaml file in the openstack/governance repo.

We have a few other deadlines coming up as we get closer to the end of the
cycle:
    
* Non-client libraries (generally, any library that is not
  python-${PROJECT}client) must have a final release by January 18. Only
  critical bugfixes will be allowed past this point. Please make sure any
  important feature works has required library changes by this time.
            
* Client libraries must have a final release by January 25.

Upcoming Deadlines & Dates
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Final non-client library release deadline: January 18
Final client library release deadline: January 25
Queens-3 Milestone: January 25
Rocky PTG in Dublin: Week of February 26, 2018

-- 
Sean McGinnis (smcginnis)