Open Stack

Development Focus
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The bobcat-2 milestone will happen in next month, on July 6, 2023. 
2023.2 Bobcat-related specs should now be finalized so that teams can 
move to implementation ASAP. Some teams observe specific deadlines on 
the second milestone (mostly spec freezes): please refer to 
https://releases.openstack.org/bobcat/schedule.html for details.

General Information
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Please remember that libraries need to be released at least once per 
milestone period. At milestone 2, the release team will propose releases 
for any library that has not been otherwise released since milestone 1.

Other non-library deliverables that follow the cycle-with-intermediary 
release model should have an intermediary release before milestone-2. 
Those who haven't will be proposed to switch to the cycle-with-rc model, 
which is more suited to deliverables that are released only once per cycle.

At milestone-2 we also freeze the contents of the final release. If you 
have a new deliverable that should be included in the final release, you 
should make sure it has a deliverable file in: 
https://opendev.org/openstack/releases/src/branch/master/deliverables/bobcat

You should request a beta release (or intermediary release) for those 
new deliverables by milestone-2. We understand some may not be quite 
ready for a full release yet, but if you have something minimally viable 
to get released it would be good to do a 0.x release to exercise the 
release tooling for your deliverables. See the MembershipFreeze 
description for more details: 
https://releases.openstack.org/bobcat/schedule.html#b-mf

Finally, now may be a good time for teams to check on any stable 
releases that need to be done for your deliverables. If you have 
bugfixes that have been backported, but no stable release getting those. 
If you are unsure what is out there committed but not released, in the 
openstack/releases repo, running the command 
"tools/list_stable_unreleased_changes.sh <cycle_name>" gives a nice report.

Upcoming Deadlines & Dates
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OpenInfra Summit in Vancouver: From June 13 to June 15, 2023
Bobcat-2 Milestone: July 6, 2023

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)