111sched.md

What	Who	APR	MAY	JUN	JUL	DEV WEEK	TEST GATES
Start of Release Cycle	Lead	2				week 1
Finalize Schedule	Lead	4
Begin collecting planned work from SIGs	Lead, Features Lead	9				week 2
Begin weekly release team meetings	Lead	10
Begin weekly status reports at Community	Lead, Shadow	12
Finalize Release Team	Lead	15
Start Release Notes Draft	Release Notes Lead	17				week 3
Clean up features repo	Features Lead	17
1.11.0-alpha.2 release	Branch Manager	18					master-blocking
"Feature Freeze" begins (EOD PST)	Feature Lead	24				week 4
1.11.0-alpha.3 release	Branch Manager		2			week 5	master-blocking
Blog post: what we're working on for 1.11	Communications		10			week 6
1.11.0-beta.0 release	Branch Manager		15			week 7	master-blocking, master-upgrade
Create 'release-1.10' branch and begin daily branch	Branch Manager		15
All release branch CI jobs created	Test Infra Lead		18
Begin Code Slush	Bot, Lead		22			week 8
Begin code freeze (EOD PST)	Bot, Lead		28			week 9	1.10-blocking, master-blocking, master-upgrade
Begin MWF Burndown meetings	Lead		28
Begin pruning	Lead and release team		28
1.11.0-beta.1 release	Branch Manager		29				1.10-blocking, master-blocking, master-upgrade
Docs deadline - PRs ready for review	Docs Lead			4
1.11.0-beta.2 release	Branch Manager			7		week 10	1.10-blocking, master-blocking, master-upgrade
Docs complete - All PRs reviewed and ready to merge	Docs Lead			11		week 11
Begin M-F Burndown meetings	Lead			11
End of code freeze (EOD PST)	Bot, Lead			20		week 12
Perform final branch	Branch Manager			20
1.11.0-rc.1 release	Branch Manager			20			1.10-blocking, master-blocking, master-upgrade
Master branch re-opens for 1.12	Bot, Branch Manager			20
PRs for v1.11.0 must be cherry picked to release-1.11	Branch Manager			21
Notify kubernetes-dev of lifting code freeze	Lead			22
v1.11.0	Branch Manager			27		week 13	1.10-blocking
v1.12.0-alpha.1	Branch Manager				2
1.12 Release Cycle Begins	Next Lead				9
Release retrospective	Community				12