releases/doc/source/pike/schedule.rst

Pike Release Schedule

20 February 2017 - 1 September 2017 (27 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-5 is on 27 July. Exceptions to this policy will be explicitly mentioned in the event description.

Cross-project events

Pike Goals Research

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

Pike Project Team Gathering (PTG)

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

Pike-1 milestone

13 April 2017 is the Pike-1 milestone window for projects following the release:cycle-with-milestones model.

Pike Community Goals Acknowledgement

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

OpenStack Summit

The OpenStack Summit happens during this week in Boston, USA. It will include a "Forum" in which people from all parts of our community will gather to give feedback on the last release (Ocata) and discuss requirements for the next development cycle (Queens).

Pike-2 milestone

8 June 2017 is the Pike-2 milestone window for projects following the release: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.

Pike-3 milestone

27 July 2017 is the Pike-3 milestone window for projects following the release:cycle-with-milestones model.

Pike Community Goals Completed

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

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 Pike-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.

Requirements freeze

After the Pike-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 7-11 August 2017 is the target date for projects following the release:cycle-with-milestones model to issue their first release candidate, with a deadline of 10 August 2017.

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 21 August 2017 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).

Pike release

The Pike coordinated release will happen on 30 August 2017.

Pike cycle-trailing feature freeze

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

Pike cycle-trailing RC deadline

The deadline for publishing a first release candidate for projects using the release:cycle-trailing model that follow the main release cycle.

Pike cycle-trailing release deadline

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

Project-specific events

Elections

Queens PTLs self-nomination

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

Queens 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 Queens PTL election officials.

Cinder

Cinder New Backend Driver Deadline

The deadline for getting a new backend driver added to Cinder is the 7th of June, 2017. 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.

Note: This is the Wednesday of the milestone week, while the milestone itself is typically targeted for Thursday.

Cinder Spec Freeze

All Cinder specs must be approved by the 7th of June, 2017.

Note: This is the Wednesday of the milestone week, while the milestone itself is typically targeted for Thursday.

Glance

Glance Spec Proposal Freeze

All Glance, python-glanceclient, and glance_store specs must be proposed as patches to the glance-specs repository by 13:59 UTC on Thursday 30 March 2017 (that is, before the weekly Glance meeting begins). This allows two weeks to make revisions and work out problems before the Glance Spec Freeze.

Glance Spec Freeze

All Glance, python-glanceclient, and glance_store specs must be merged into the glance-specs repository by 23:59 on Friday 14 April 2017. This is necessary but not sufficient condition for inclusion in the Pike release.

Keystone

Keystone Spec Proposal Freeze

All Keystone specs targeted to Pike must be submitted to the keystone-specs repository by the end of the week.

Keystone Spec Freeze

All Keystone specs targeted to Pike must be approved by the end of the week.

Keystone Feature Proposal Freeze

All new Keystone features must be proposed and substantially completed, with unit tests and documentation by the end of the week.

Keystone Feature Freeze

All new Keystone features must be merged by the end of the week.

Manila

Manila New Driver Submission Deadline

The deadline for submitting new backend drivers to to Manila is 5 June 2017 (23:59 UTC). New drivers must be substantially complete, with unit tests, and passing 3rd party CI by this date. Drivers do not need to be merged until the feature freeze date, but drivers that don't meet this deadline will not be considered at all for Pike.

Manila Spec Freeze

All Manila specs must be approved by 13 Apr 2017 (23:59 UTC).

Manila Feature Proposal Freeze

All new Manila features must be proposed and substantially complete, with unit tests by 10 July 2017 (23:59 UTC).

Nova

Nova Spec Freeze

All Nova specs must be approved by Thursday April 13th, 2017.