Planning/2.12

Release Schedule

Tentatively proposed dates, still to be discussed/agreed.

2017-12-13	Beginning of development phase
2017-10-31	Soft feature freeze. Only bug fixes after this point. All feature changes must be already in a sub maintainer tree and all pull requests from submaintainers must have been sent to the list by this date.
2018-03-20	Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2018-03-27	Tag rc1
2018-04-03	Tag rc2
2018-04-10	Tag rc3
2018-04-17	Release, or tag rc4 if extra RC cycle needed
2018-04-24	Release, if we needed an rc4.

Known issues

Please list all patch series or bugs which need to be fixed for the release here. That way I can be sure I don't miss any when I'm rolling release candidates.

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/2.12 for full details.