Nova/Liberty Release Schedule
< Nova
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
- 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
