[REMINDER] Cherry pick deadline of 1.17.1, 1.16.5, 1.15.8 is THIS FRIDAY

[Stephen Augustus]

Hey kubefolx,

Just a reminder that the cherry pick deadline for 1.17.1, 1.16.5, and 1.15.8 is this Friday, January 10, EOD PT.

For PRs that you intend to land for the upcoming patch sets (tentative release date: Tuesday, January 14), please ensure they have:
- a release note in the PR description
- /sig
- /kind
- /priority
- /lgtm
- /approve
- passing tests

Details on the cherry pick process can be found here: https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-release/cherry-picks.md

We keep general info and up-to-date timelines for patch releases here: https://git.k8s.io/sig-release/releases/patch-releases.md

If you have any questions for the Patch Release Team, please feel free to reach out to us at #release-management (Kubernetes Slack) or release-...@kubernetes.io.

-- Stephen

[Stephen Augustus]

Oh, and here are some lazy links to search on PRs:

• release-1.17: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+base%3Arelease-1.17
  
• release-1.16: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+base%3Arelease-1.16
• release-1.15: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+base%3Arelease-1.15

-- Stephen