Ottawa is unusually quiet today. People are burrowing in for a winter storm that is coming up from the US. A quote from Environment Canada

A low pressure area over Arkansas is getting organized and setting its sights on southern Ontario

I would have thought that the Arkansans would be too busy organizing Super Tuesday to bother sending weather up here!

One group of Ottawa inhabitants that is apparently not going to experience a storm is the Foundation IP team. Last year 154 non-EPL Contribution Questionnaires (CQs) were submitted to IPzilla in the month of January. 122 of those were submitted on the 30th or 31st! While past performance does not necessarily represent the future gains, the team has been stocking up on water, Tums and crates of patience. It may be all for naught. As of a few minutes ago only 75 CQs had been submitted for the entire month and the queue has only 58 pending.

This is great if its for real. Its bad if there is a storm brewing just out of radar/satellite range. The day is not over until midnight but it seems unlikely that committers around the world are poised to submit an onslaught of CQs. More likely is that committers and project leaders have forgotten about the deadline. Also possible is that we have simply identified and cleared all the interesting third-party code out there.  Uhhh, no.

Seriously folks, if you have not submitted CQs for the things that you think you will need for Ganymede, please do so now. The IP team really needs to know what they are dealing with over the next few months so they can schedule and prioritize accordingly.

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