[Opm] Tentative release 2019.10 plan

[Markus Blatt]

Hi,

as discussed internally the our regular fall release is on our doorstep already.
I have the pleasure of being the release manager this time.

My current time plan is as follows:

Fri Oct 11 (evening): creation of release branches. PRs merged by then will be
                 in the release automatically.
Sa Oct 12 - Su Oct 20: First tests by the release manager (and hopefully the rest)
                 Important features might still be backported from master on
		 special request.
Mo Oct 21 (10:00 CET): Feature freeze. Only bug fixes will be backported/merged from now on.
We Oct 23: 1st beta release candidate.
Mo Oct 28: 2nd beta release candidate.
Th Oct 31: release.

Please mark the PRs that should go into the release with Milestone "Release 2019.10" to make it easier to get an overview.

>From Oct 12 on features/bug fixes will need to be merged to master first and will be backported by me
to the release branches. Please keep that in mind as you will need to clearly state that a PR is also for
the release to speed up reviewing and prevent me from missing stuff.

Thanks in advance for all the help and your patience with the release manager.

Cheers,

Markus
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