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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 just passed feature freeze! Until release branches are cut, you</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">should stop accepting featureful changes to deliverables following the</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">cycle-with-rc release model, or to libraries. Exceptions should be</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">discussed on separate threads on the mailing-list, and feature freeze</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">exceptions approved by the team's PTL.</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">Focus should be on finding and fixing release-critical bugs, so that</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">release candidates and final versions of the 2023.1 Antelope deliverables</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">can be proposed, well ahead of the final 2023.1 Antelope release date.</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;">We are still finishing up processing a few release requests, but the</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">2023.1 Antelope release requirements are now frozen. If new library</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">releases are needed to fix release-critical bugs in 2023.1 Antelope, you</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">must request a Requirements Freeze Exception (RFE) from the requirements</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">team before we can do a new release to avoid having something released</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">in 2023.1 Antelope that is not actually usable. This is done by posting</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">to the openstack-discuss mailing list with a subject line similar to:</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;"> [$PROJECT][requirements] RFE requested for $PROJECT_LIB</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">Include justification/reasoning for why a RFE is needed for this lib.</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">If/when the requirements team OKs the post-freeze update, we can then</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">A soft String freeze is now in effect, in order to let the I18N team do</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">the translation work in good conditions. In Horizon and the various</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">dashboard plugins, you should stop accepting changes that modify</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">user-visible strings. Exceptions should be discussed on the mailing-list.</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">By March 2nd, 2023 this will become a hard string freeze, with no changes</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">stable/2023.1 branches should be created soon for all not-already-branched</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">libraries. You should expect 2-3 changes to be proposed for each: a</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">.gitreview update, a reno update (skipped for projects not using reno),</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">and a tox.ini constraints URL update. Please review those in priority</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">so that the branch can be functional ASAP.</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">The Prelude section of reno release notes is rendered as the top level</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">overview for the release. Any important overall messaging for 2023.1 Antelope</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">changes should be added there to make sure the consumers of your release</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">Finally, if you haven't proposed 2023.1 Antelope cycle-highlights yet,</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">then you are encouraged to do so as deadline is February 23rd, 2023.</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">A separate email will be sent early next week.</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">Cycle Highlights Due: February 23rd, 2023 (R-4 week)</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">RC1 deadline: March 2nd, 2023 (R-3 week)</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">Final RC deadline: March 16th, 2023 (R-1 week)</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">Final 2023.1 Antelope release: March 22nd, 2023</span></div>
<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;">irc: elodilles @ #openstack-release</span></div>
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