releases/doc/source/ocata/schedule.rst

Ocata Release Schedule

31 October 2016 - 24 February 2017 (16 weeks)

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Note

With the exception of the final release date and cycle-trailing release date, deadlines are generally the Thursday of the week on which they are noted above. For example, the Feature Freeze in week R-4 is on 26 January. Exceptions to this policy will be explicitly mentioned in the event description.

Cross-project events

Ocata Goals Research

Pre-cycle planning and investigation into the community-wide goals for Ocata.

Ocata Design Summit

Planning in Barcelona

Pike Project Team Gathering (PTG)

Project team gathering for the Pike release 20-24 February 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Ocata-1 milestone

17 November is the ocata-1 milestone window for projects following the cycle-with-milestones model.

Ocata Community Goals Acknowledgement

Teams should prepare their acknowledgement of the community-wide goals for Ocata.

Ocata-2 milestone

15 December is the ocata-2 milestone window for projects following the cycle-with-milestones model.

Final release for non-client libraries

Libraries that are not client libraries (Oslo and others) should issue their final release during this week. That allows to give time for last-minute changes before feature freeze.

Ocata-3 milestone

26 January is the ocata-3 milestone window for projects following the cycle-with-milestones model.

Ocata Community Goals Completed

Teams should prepare their documentation for completing the community-wide goals for Ocata.

Extra-ATCs deadline

Project teams should identify contributors who have had a significant impact this cycle but who would not qualify for ATC status using the regular process because they have not submitted a patch. Those names should be added to the governance repo for consideration as ATC for the future.

Although extra ATCs can be nominated at any point, there is a deadline to be included in electorate for the next release cycle. The ATC list needs to be approved by the TC by (TBD), and in order to appear on the TC agenda to be discussed, the proposals need to be submitted to the openstack/governance repository by (TBD).

Feature freeze

The ocata-3 milestone marks feature freeze for projects following the cycle-with-milestones model. No featureful patch should be landed after this point. Exceptions may be granted by the project PTL.

Requirements freeze

After the ocata-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.

Final release for client libraries

Client libraries should issue their final release during this week, to match feature freeze.

Soft StringFreeze

You are no longer allowed to accept proposed changes containing modifications in user-facing strings. Such changes should be rejected by the review team and postponed until the next series development opens (which should happen when RC1 is published).

Membership Freeze

Projects must participate in at least two milestones in order to be considered part of the release. Projects made official after the second milestone, or which fail to produce milestone releases for at least one of the first and second milestones as well as the third milestone, are therefore not considered part of the release for the cycle.

RC1 target week

The week of 30 January - 3 February is the target date for projects following the cycle-with-milestones model to issue their first release candidate, with a deadline of 2 February.

Hard StringFreeze

This happens when the RC1 for the project is tagged. At this point, ideally no strings are changed (or added, or removed), to give translator time to finish up their efforts.

Final RCs and intermediary releases

The week of 13-17 February is the last week to issue release candidates or intermediary releases before release week. During release week, only final-release-critical releases will be accepted (at the discretion of the release team).

Ocata release

The Ocata coordinated release will happen on 22 February.

Ocata cycle-trailing Deadline

The deadline for projects using the release:cycle-trailing model that follow the main release cycle is 9 March.

Project-specific events

Elections

Pike PTLs self-nomination

Project team lead candidates for the Pike cycle should announce their candidacy during this week. Those dates should be confirmed by the Pike PTL election officials.

Pike cycle PTLs election

Election week for Project team leads (where an election must be held to determine the winner). Those dates should be confirmed by the Pike PTL election officials.

Cinder

Cinder New Backend Driver Deadline

The deadline for getting a new backend driver added to Cinder is 14th December, 2016. All review issues must be addressed and third party CI must be reporting and stable with enough time for reviewers prior to the deadline. Meeting these requirements on the 14th does not guarantee core reviewers will have enough time to merge the driver.

Cinder Spec Freeze

All Cinder specs must be approved by 14th December, 2016.

Glance

The following deadlines are specific to the Glance project.

Glance Spec Proposal Freeze

All Glance, python-glanceclient, and glance_store specs must be proposed as patches to the glance-specs repository by 23:59 UTC on Thursday 10 November 2016.

Glance Spec Freeze

All Glance, python-glanceclient, and glance_store specs must be merged into the glance-specs repository by 23:59 UTC on Friday 25 November 2016.

Nova

The deadlines below are specific to the Nova project.

Nova Spec Freeze

All Nova specs must be approved by 17th November, 2016.

Manila

Manila Low-Priority Spec Freeze

All Manila specs must be approved by 17th November, 2016, unless they are officially designated high-priority.

Manila High-Priority Spec Freeze

All high-priority Manila specs must be approved by 15th December, 2016.

Manila Driver Proposal Freeze

All new Manila drivers must be proposed by 19th December, 2016.

Horizon

Horizon Feature Freeze

Horizon will enter feature freeze a week before other projects to allow plugin authors an additional week to react to feature changes.

Trove

The deadlines below are specific to the Trove project.

Trove Spec Proposal Deadline

Submit all Trove specs for the release by the end of this week (for review) in trove-specs repository.

Trove Spec Freeze

All Trove specs for the release must be approved by the end of this week.

Trove Guest Requirements Freeze

Freeze the requirements for all guest agents by this date and make the requirements file for guests.

Trove Client Soft Freeze

All major features for the python-troveclient must be reviewed and approved by the end of this week, this gives us one additional week to address any issues with dependencies.

Keystone

The deadlines below are specific to the Keystone project.

Keystone Spec Proposal Deadline

Submit all keystone specs for the release by the end of this week (for review) in keystone-specs repository.

Keystone Spec Freeze

All keystone specs for the release must be approved by the end of this week.

Keystone Feature Proposal Deadline

All major keystone features for the release must be proposed by the end of this week.

Keystone Feature Proposal Freeze

All major features for keystone must be reviewed and approved by the end of this week.