<div dir="ltr"><p>If the article isn't posting correctly, please feel free to visit it directly at <a href="https://blogs.rdoproject.org/2019/10/cycle-trailing-projects-and-rdos-latest-release-train/">https://blogs.rdoproject.org/2019/10/cycle-trailing-projects-and-rdos-latest-release-train/</a> <br></p><p>---<br></p><p>The RDO community is pleased to announce the general availability of
the RDO build for OpenStack Train for RPM-based distributions, CentOS
Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RDO is suitable for building
private, public, and hybrid clouds. Train is the 20th release from the
OpenStack project, which is the work of more than <a href="https://www.stackalytics.com/?metric=commits">1115 contributors</a> from around the world.</p>
<p>The release is already available on the CentOS mirror network at <a href="http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/cloud/x86_64/openstack-train/">http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/cloud/x86_64/openstack-train/</a>.</p>
<p>BUT!</p>
<blockquote><p><font size="6"><b>This is not the official announcement you’re looking for.</b></font></p></blockquote>
<p>We’re doing something a little different this cycle – we’re waiting for some of the <a href="https://releases.openstack.org/reference/release_models.html#cycle-trailing">“cycle-trailing”</a> projects that we’re particularly keen about, like <a href="https://docs.openstack.org/tripleo-docs/latest/developer/release.html">TripleO</a> and <a href="https://docs.openstack.org/kolla/latest/contributor/release-management.html">Kolla</a>, to finish their push BEFORE we make the official announcement.</p>
<img src="https://i1.wp.com/rdo.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/denis-chick-mHqIs22M2Kw-unsplash.jpg?resize=600%2C398&ssl=1" alt="" class="gmail-size-medium_large gmail-wp-image-8469" width="590" height="392">Photo by Denis Chick on Unsplash
<p>Deployment and lifecycle-management tools generally want to follow
the release cycle, but because they rely on the other projects being
completed, they may not always publish their final release at the same
time as those projects. To that effect, they may choose the <a href="https://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/release-management.html#trailing-the-common-cycle">cycle-trailing release model</a>.</p>
<p>Cycle-trailing projects are given an extra three months after the
final release date to request publication of their release. They may
otherwise use intermediary releases or development milestones.</p>
<p>While we’re super hopeful that these cycle trailing projects will be uploaded to the CentOS mirror before <a href="https://www.openstack.org/summit/shanghai-2019">OpenInfrastructure Summit Shanghai</a>, we’re going to do the official announcement just before the Summit with or without the packages.</p>
<p>We’ve got a lot of people to thank!</p>
<p>Do you like that we’re waiting a bit for our cycle trailing projects
or would you prefer the official announcement as soon as the main
projects are available? Let us know in the comments and we may adjust
the process for future releases!</p>
<p>In the meantime, keep an eye here or <a href="https://lists.rdoproject.org/mailman/listinfo">on the mailing lists</a> for the official announcement COMING SOON!</p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span><font color="#888888"><div>K Rain Leander<br>OpenStack Community Liaison<br>Open Source Program Office<br><a href="https://www.rdoproject.org/" target="_blank">https://www.rdoproject.org/</a><br></div><div><a href="http://community.redhat.com" target="_blank">http://community.redhat.com</a><br></div></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>