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Welcome to our regular release countdown email.

Development Focus
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Team focus should be on spec approval and implementation for priority features.

The first Rocky milestone is this coming Thursday, the 19th. While there aren't
any OpenStack-wide deadlines for this milestone, individual projects do have
some time critical requirements. Please be aware of any project specific
deadlines that may impact you.


General Information
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PTLs and release liaisons of cycle-with-milestones projects, no later than
Thursday you will need to prepare a release request for your project(s) using
deliverables/rocky/$project.yaml in openstack/releases. The initial release
number should be $MAJOR.0.0.0b1, where $MAJOR is incremented from the Queens
version. Please ask in the #openstack-release channel if you have any questions
about this.

Reminder to pay attention to the work being done in support of the Rocky cycle
goals [1].

[1] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/goals/rocky/index.html

The TC elections start on the April 23rd. The nomination period is open until
the 17th, so if you have any interest, please consider putting your name in for
the election.

There will be a week of "campaigning" after the nomination period is over and
before voting begins. Please participate in any discussions on the
openstack-dev mailing list to give everyone a chance to learn more about the
candidates and their opinions.

You can check out the candidates for this election and get details on the
election page [2].

[2] https://governance.openstack.org/election/

Even if you don't have a strong opinion on candidates or their plans with the
TC, please consider voting for your preferred candidates. We need the
participation of all of the OpenStack community. Your vote helps and does make
a difference.


Upcoming Deadlines & Dates
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TC Nomination Deadline: April 17
TC Campaigning: April 17-22
TC Election: April 23-30
Rocky-1 milestone: April 19 (R-19 week)
Forum at OpenStack Summit in Vancouver: May 21-24

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Sean McGinnis (smcginnis)