From 4fad60e47967ace815c1deee94dd0dcab4c9bc1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alan Pevec Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 17:07:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add Requirements freeze at Newton-3 milestone Change-Id: Ia917a505d6d55686096cbdef2297ec714bc955ce --- doc/source/newton/schedule.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/source/newton/schedule.rst b/doc/source/newton/schedule.rst index 5a1785e41a..9663b63755 100644 --- a/doc/source/newton/schedule.rst +++ b/doc/source/newton/schedule.rst @@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ | | | :ref:`n-final-clientlib` | :ref:`n-key-ff` | | | +---------------------------+-----------------------------+ | | | :ref:`n-soft-sf` | | +| | +---------------------------+-----------------------------+ +| | | :ref:`n-rf` | | +------------+------+---------------------------+-----------------------------+ | Sep 05-09 | R-4 | | | +------------+------+---------------------------+-----------------------------+ @@ -148,6 +150,18 @@ The newton-3 milestone marks feature freeze for projects following the `release:cycle-with-milestones`_ model. No featureful patch should be landed after this point. Exceptions may be granted by the project PTL. +.. _n-rf: + +Requirements freeze +------------------- + +After the newton-3 milestone, only critical requirements and +constraints changes will be allowed. Freezing our requirements list +gives packagers downstream an opportunity to catch up and prepare +packages for everything necessary for distributions of the upcoming +release. The requirements remain frozen until the stable branches are +created, with the release candidates. + .. _n-final-clientlib: Final release for client libraries