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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">Welcome back to the release countdown emails! These will be sent at</span>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">major points in the 2023.2 Bobcat development cycle, which should</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">conclude with a final release on October 4th, 2023.</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">At this stage in the release cycle, focus should be on planning the</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">2023.2 Bobcat is a 28 weeks long development cycle. In case you haven't</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">seen it yet, please take a look over the schedule for this release:</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0 elementToProof"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">https://releases.openstack.org/bobcat/schedule.html</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0 elementToProof"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">By default, the team PTL is responsible for handling the release cycle</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">and approving release requests. This task can (and probably should) be</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">delegated to release liaisons. Now is a good time to review release</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">https://opendev.org/openstack/releases/src/branch/master/data/release_liaisons.yaml</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">By default, all your team deliverables from the 2023.1 Antelope release</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">Bobcat-1 milestone: May 11th, 2023</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">OpenInfra Summit + PTG Vancouver 2023 - June 13-15, 2023</span></div>
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<pre class="ContentPasted1 elementToProof"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">Előd Illés
irc: elodilles @ #openstack-release</span></pre>
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