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# 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!
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**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.
    
    