[FFe] Plan for Nova for Maverick

OpenStack's release schedule is a bit unfortunate with regards to Maverick. Our target dates are like so:

2010-09-30 Feature Freeze
2010-10-14 Final Freeze
2010-10-21 Release

Easy things first: Once our release is out the door, I will ask to get it SRU'ed into maverick-updates.

The tricky bits:
Things are still moving very fast, new features and lots of bugfixes landing every day. I expect things will act just like in Ubuntu: As we approach Feature Freeze, the rate of change increases. After that, I expect everything to calm back down.

We have a couple of what I consider a pretty big milestones coming up shortly:
The first will remove our dependency on Redis. We're looking to deprecate Redis going forward, so I'd really like to lose this dependency in our Ubuntu packages ASAP. As soon as the last patch for this lands, I'd like to do an upload. I expect this to happen this week or early next week.

At some point after that, our support for the Rackspace Cloud Servers API (destined to be the canonical OpenStack Compute API) will be usable, and the EC2 API support will have been merged with it. Once this lands, I'd like to do another upload. I expect this to be at or around our Feature Freeze date.

In the time between our feature freeze and Maverick's release, I'm hoping to do another couple of uploads to address bugs that surface after feature freeze.

That's my plan. Comments are very welcome.