# 1.26 Code Freeze Instructions ### Steps to follow: **Step 1:** Go the project board and review which enhancements you are assigned. This has been updated since enhancement freeze to evenly distribute the enhancements between everyone on the team. **Step 2:** Go to the KEP issue https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/<issue-number> or by clicking on the link in the "title" field. **Step 3:** Verify if the enhancement has any linked k/k PRs and the status of the linked k/k PRs. The goal is to verify that all k/k PRs for the enhancement have been merged up before code freeze. If there are no linked PRs from the enhancement issue, you can search k/k for open/merged PRs related to the issue by searching for the KEP number of KEP title. If you cannot find any related k/k PRs, ask the enhancement owner if there are any open. If you can find the related PRs, the comment would look something like this: ``` Hi {enhancement owner} 👋, Checking in once more as we approach 1.26 code freeze at 17:00 PDT on Tuesday 8th November 2022. Please ensure the following items are completed: - [ ] All PRs to the [Kubernetes repo](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes) that are related to your enhancement are linked in the above issue description (for tracking purposes). - [ ] All PRs are fully merged by the code freeze deadline. For this enhancement, it looks like the following PRs are open and need to be merged before code freeze: - <list of open PRs> As always, we are here to help should questions come up. Thanks! ``` If you *cannot* find the related PRs, the comment would look something like this: ``` Hi {enhancement owner} 👋, Checking in once more as we approach 1.26 code freeze at 17:00 PDT on Tuesday 8th November 2022. Please ensure the following items are completed: - [ ] All PRs to the [Kubernetes repo](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes) that are related to your enhancement are linked in the above issue description (for tracking purposes). - [ ] All PRs are fully merged by the code freeze deadline. For this enhancement, I could not locate any k/k PRs. Please plan to get PRs out for all k/k code so it can be merged up by code freeze. If you do have k/k PRs open, please link them to this issue. As always, we are here to help should questions come up. Thanks! ``` **Step 4:** On the project board, mark any enhancement that does not have all k/k PRs merged up as `At Risk`. **Step 5:** Continue to monitor your assigned enhancements and marked them as `Tracked` once the k/k PRs are merged.