Here's a draft release schedule for 3.1, created by taking our usual setup and arranging it to be definitely done before Christmas.
2018-10-30 Soft feature freeze. 2018-11-06 Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0 2018-11-13 Tag rc1 2018-11-20 Tag rc2 2018-11-27 Tag rc3 2018-12-04 Release; or tag rc4 if needed 2018-12-11 Release, if we needed an rc4 NB: KVM Forum is 24-26 Oct, so just before softfreeze. We could maybe move it a week back, but that would mean probably releasing on the 18th. I haven't yet figured out my Christmas holiday plans but I suspect that would fall within them... thanks -- PMM
