Just a little bit about Hawthorn

[Ned Batchelder]

The next Open edX release will be called Hawthorn.  We don't have firm dates, but we expect to be able to create the master branches the week after next.  Typically, finishing up the release take six weeks from that point.

I won't try to list the features coming in Hawthorn (see previous product announcements for that), but there are a few new things in Hawthorn that might affect the release process.  First, we will not be supporting Vagrant any more.  Devstack will be based on Docker.  Second, we will be examining release automation possibilities this time around, and may do some discovery work related to that.

If you have concerns about what is in Hawthorn, or pull requests in flight that should land before Hawthorn, see the Hawthorn wiki page. 

Thanks,

--Ned.