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We are already starting on RC week. Time flies when you're having fun.

Development Focus
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The Release Candidate (RC) deadline is this Thursday, the 8th. Work should be
focused on any release-critical bugs and wrapping up and remaining feature
work.

General Information
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All cycle-with-milestones and cycle-with-intermediary projects should cut their
stable/queens branch by the end of this week. This branch will track the Queens
release.

Once stable/queens has been created, master will will be ready to switch to
Rocky development. While master will no longer be frozen, please prioritize any
work necessary for completing Queens plans.

Changes can be merged into stable/queens as needed if deemed necessary for an
RC2. Once Queens is released, stable/queens will also be ready for any stable
point releases. Whether fixing something for another RC, or in preparation of a
future stable release, fixes must be merged to master first, then backported to
stable/queens.

Actions
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cycle-with-milestones deliverables should post an RC1 to openstack/releases
using the version format X.Y.Z.0rc1 along with branch creation from this point.
The deliverable changes should look something like:
    
      releases:
    - projects:
        - hash: 90f3ed251084952b43b89a172895a005182e6970
          repo: openstack/example
      version: 1.0.0.0rc1
branches:
  - name: stable/queens
    location: 1.0.0.0rc1

Other cycle deliverables (not *-with-milestones) will look the same, but with
your normal versioning.

For deliverables with release notes, you may also want to add, or update, your
release notes links in the deliverable file to something like:
    
    release-notes: https://docs.openstack.org/releasenotes/example/queens.html

And one more reminder, please add what highlights you want for your project
team in the cycle highlights:

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-December/125613.html


Upcoming Deadlines & Dates
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Rocky PTL nominations: January 29 - February 1
Rocky PTL election: February 7 - 14
OpenStack Summit Vancouver CFP deadline: February 8
Rocky PTG in Dublin: Week of February 26, 2018
Queens cycle-trailing RC deadline: March 1

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Sean McGinnis (smcginnis)