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Happy New Year, everyone!

Focus
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Feature work and major refactoring should be well under way as we
approach the third milestone and various feature and release freeze
dates.

The deadline for non-client library releases is R-5 (19 Jan). We do not
grant Feature Freeze Extensions for any libraries, so that is a hard
freeze date. Any feature work that requires updates to non-client
libraries should be prioritized so it can be completed by that time.

Release Tasks
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As we did at the end of Newton, when the time comes to create
stable/ocata branches they will be configured so that members of the
$project-release group in gerrit have permission to approve patches.
This group should be a small subset of the core review team, aware of
the priorities and criteria for patches to be approved as we work toward
release candidates. Release liaisons should ensure that these groups
exist in gerrit and that their membership is correct for this cycle.
Please coordinate with the release management team if you have any
questions.

General Notes
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We will start the soft string freeze during R-4 (23-27 Jan). See
https://releases.openstack.org/ocata/schedule.html#o-soft-sf for details

Important Dates
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Final release of non-client libraries: 19 Jan
Ocata 3 Milestone, with Feature and Requirements Freezes: 26 Jan
Ocata release schedule:
http://releases.openstack.org/ocata/schedule.html