The good news: OpenStack has unprecedented transparency when it comes
to providing information about what’s coming up. The bad news: each release
moves very quickly. The purpose of this appendix is to highlight some of the
useful pages to track, and take an educated guess at what is coming up in
the Icehouse release and perhaps further afield.
OpenStack follows a six month release cycle, typically releasing in
April/May and October/November each year. At the start of each cycle, the
community gathers in a single location for a design summit. At the summit,
the features for the coming releases are discussed, prioritized, and
planned. Figure C-1 shows an example release
cycle, with dates showing milestone releases, code freeze, and string freeze
dates, along with an example of when the summit occurs. Milestones are
interim releases within the cycle that are available as packages for
download and testing. Code freeze is putting a stop to adding new features
to the release. String freeze is putting a stop to changing any strings
within the source code.
Figure C-1. Release cycle diagram
Information Available to You
There are several good sources of information available that you can
use to track your OpenStack development desires.
Release notes are maintained on the OpenStack wiki, and also shown
here:
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