Nova/Mitaka Release Schedule

= Dates Overview =

Nova roughly follows the general scheduler: Mitaka_Release_Schedule

PLEASE NOTE, THESE DATES BELOW HAVE NOT YET BEEN CONFIRMED, ITS JUST A PROPOSAL.


 * Dec 1-3: mitaka-1
 * Dec 3: Nova spec freeze
 * Jan 19-21: mitaka-2
 * Jan 21: Nova non-priority feature freeze
 * Jan 26-28: Nova Midcycle (TBC)
 * Feb 25: FinalLibraryRelease, and feature proposal freeze
 * Mar 1-3: mitaka-3, and FeatureFreeze, SoftStringFreeze, RequirementsFreeze, FinalClientLibraryRelease
 * Mar 15-17: RC1 and HardStringFreeze
 * April 7, 2016: Mitaka Release

OpenStack wide tracking of current progress: http://status.openstack.org/release/

= Special review days =

Generally on a Thursday, set aside a day for reviews as a community:


 * November 19: Spec Review Day
 * Focus on spec reviews: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/project:openstack/nova-specs+status:open+file:%255E.*mitaka.*,n,z
 * December 17th: non-priority feature review bash day
 * Focus on low priority NeedCodeReview blueprints: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/mitaka
 * February 4th: bug triage day
 * Follow this process: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/BugTriage and https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Nova/BugTriage
 * TODO - a bug fix day?

= Virtual Sprint =


 * December 8th and 9th: Virtual API document sprint
 * Focus on improve nova api document http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-November/079220.html

All of these involve hanging out in #openstack-nova and working together to try and improve the statistics mentioned above.

= FAQs =

Please see: Nova/Process and Nova/Mentoring