I wanted to draw folks' attention to http://community.redhat.com/blog/2015/12/guidelines-for-announcing-softwa... - particularly the people that are involved in packaging and the Cloud SIG. In brief - what we do, as a project, is release software packages, and we need to do a good job of telling the world what we're releasing, and why they should care. (FWIW, I think the last few times we've done a really great job.) We've also got a very slimmed-down version of Brian's article at https://www.rdoproject.org/rdo/release-checklist/ but Brian gives a really thorough treatment of what can can, should, and shouldn't do, when it comes to a new release. -- Rich Bowen - rbowen(a)redhat.com OpenStack Community Liaison http://rdoproject.org/