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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">Development Focus</span>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">We are entering the last weeks of the 2023.1 Antelope development cycle.</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">From now until the final release, we'll send a countdown email like this</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">It's probably a good time for teams to take stock of their library and</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">is coming up, followed closely by the client lib freeze. Please plan</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">General Information</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">Next week is the Extra-ATC freeze, in preparation for elections. All</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">contributions to OpenStack are valuable, but some are not expressed as</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">Gerrit code changes. Please list active contributors to your project team</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">who do not have a code contribution this cycle, and therefore won't</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">automatically be considered an Active Technical Contributor and allowed</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">to vote. This is done by adding extra-atcs to</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">https://opendev.org/openstack/governance/src/branch/master/reference/projects.yaml</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">before the Extra-ATC freeze on February 2nd, 2023.</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">A quick reminder of the upcoming freeze dates. Those vary depending on</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">* General libraries (except client libraries) need to have their last</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">feature release before Non-client library freeze (February 9th, 2023).</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">Their stable branches are cut early.</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">* Client libraries (think python-*client libraries) need to have their</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">* Deliverables following a cycle-with-rc model (that would be most</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">services) observe a Feature freeze on that same date, February 16th, 2023. Any</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">feature addition beyond that date should be discussed on the mailing-list</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">and get PTL approval. After feature freeze, cycle-with-rc deliverables</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">need to produce a first release candidate (and a stable branch) before</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">* Deliverables following cycle-with-intermediary model can release as</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">Finally, now is also a good time to start planning what highlights you</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">want for your deliverables in the cycle highlights. The deadline to</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">submit an initial version for those is set to Feature freeze (February</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">16th, 2023).</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">Background on cycle-highlights:</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-December/125613.html</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">Project Team Guide, Cycle-Highlights:</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">https://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/release-management.html#cycle-highlights</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">knelson [at] openstack.org/diablo_rojo on IRC is available if you need</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">Upcoming Deadlines & Dates</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">Extra-ATC freeze: February 2nd, 2023 (R-7 week)</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">Non-client library freeze: February 9th, 2023 (R-6 week)</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">Client library freeze: February 16th, 2023 (R-5 week)</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">Antelope-3 milestone: February 16th, 2023 (R-5 week)</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">2023.2 Bobcat Virtual PTG: March 27-31, 2023</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">Előd Illés</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">irc: elodilles @ #openstack-release</span><br>
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