Nova/Liberty Release Schedule

We are aligning with: Liberty_Release_Schedule

But there are some extra deadlines to around Priority features.

Dates overview

• June 23-25: liberty-1 -- spec freeze for L, backlog stays open
• July 21-23: mid-cycle meetup
• July 28-30: liberty-2 -- non-priority feature freeze
• September 1-3: liberty-3 -- align with string freeze, etc, open specs for M

TODO - what they all mean

TODO - exception process

Special review days

• June 12: spec review day (to be confirmed)
• July 10: feature review bash day (to be confirmed)
• August 7: bug triage day (to be confirmed)
• September 11: bug review bash day (to be confirmed)

How to get my feature merged?

TODO

Why bother?

We have agreed a list of priorities for the release here: http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/nova-specs/#priorities

Over previous release it became clear there are things we have to stop doing, to enable enough developer effort and review bandwidth to focus on priorities.

If people are not working on priorities, its hoped they can either start helping some some of the priority efforts, or assist with bug fixing and bug triage.