Nova/Liberty Release Schedule

We are aligning with: Liberty_Release_Schedule But there are some extra deadlines around Priority features.

If you are new to Nova, please read this first: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Nova/Mentoring

Dates overview

 * June 23-25: liberty-1 -- spec freeze for L, backlog stays open


 * July 16: non-priority feature proposal freeze
 * July 21-23: mid-cycle meetup
 * July 30: liberty-2 -- non-priority feature freeze


 * August 18: Feature Proposal Freeze
 * September 1: liberty-3 -- align with string freeze, etc, open specs for M


 * September 21st: Hard String Freeze, soon after that date expect to cut RC1 and open master for Mitaka
 * October 5th: cut a new tarball to include latest translations
 * October 12th: expect to bless most recent milestone as Liberty

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

Announcement of these dates on the mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-June/065819.html

Special review days
To make the above gates go smoother, we have some big review pushes:
 * June 12: spec review day
 * Focus on liberty specs not backlog specs: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/project:openstack/nova-specs+status:open+file:%255E.*liberty.*,n,z
 * https://review.openstack.org/#/q/project:openstack/nova-specs+status:open+file:%255E.*liberty.*,n,z
 * July 10: non-priority feature review bash day
 * Look at NeedCodeReview blueprints, and get more to complete: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/liberty
 * Focus on the things considered ready to merge and non-priority here: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/liberty-nova-priorities-tracking
 * August 5: bug triage day
 * Follow this process: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/BugTriage and https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Nova/BugTriage
 * Results: Bug Triage Day - Liberty
 * August 12: bug review day
 * Try to get some bug fixes merged: http://status.openstack.org/reviews/
 * September 9th: release critical bug triage day
 * Look out for release blocking bugs, using: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/BugTriage

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

FAQs
For more details on process, please now see: Nova/Process