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Release milestones and their associated tasks, are used to track the status of the meta-release. The milestones and management tasks used in the release process are described in the table below.
| Milestone | Milestone NameDescription | Actions to achieve milestone | Timeline |
| Timeline update | Week number |
|---|
| Kickoff - M0 | Start of release cycle. |
| M0 |
| M0 | 0 |
M1 | Initiate Commonalities & ICM | - Scope of Work Products clarified and recorded in dedicated issue.
- Identify commonalities work products.
- Create alpha release for Commonalities and ICM
- Create initial PRs for commonalities.
- Agree on the scope of commonalities.
- TSC review.
| M0 + 2 week |
| M0 + 2 week | 2 |
M2 | Finalize Commonalities & ICM | - Create release-candidate for Commonalities and ICM
- Prepare public-release for Commonalities & ICM.
- Complete initial PR reviews.
- TSC Approval.
| M1 + 7 weeks |
| M1 + 8 (+2) weeks | 12 |
M3 | Initiate Sub-Projects / APIs | - Scope Request to Sub-Projects / APIs.
- Determine requirements for Sub-projects / APIs.
- Create PRs for Sub-projects / APIs.
- Review and finalize PRs.
- Confirm scope of Sub-projects / APIs
- Define API test cases.
- Define acceptance criteria.
- Create alpha release for for Sub-projects / APIs.
| M1 + 6 weeks |
| M1 + 6 (+2) weeks | 10 |
M4M4 | Finalize Sub-projects / APIs | - Conduct testing and log test result.
- Evaluate and log acceptance criteria.
- Code Freeze
- Create release-candidate for Sub-Projects / APIs.
- Prepare public-release for Sub-Projects / APIs.
- Request approval of Sub-projects / APIs to Release Management WG for meta-release
| M3 + 8 (+2) weeks |
| M3 + 8 (+2) weeks | 20 |
M5 | Meta Release | - Determine the acceptance of the release-candidates for inclusion in the meta-release
- Bundle & publish meta-release
- TSC Approval
- Publish meta-release
| M4 + 2 weeks |
| M4 + 2 weeks | 22 |
M6 | Post- Release | - Review release process and identify areas for improvement.
- Release Retro.
- TSC Approval.
| M5 + 2 weeks |
| M5 + 2 weeks | 24 |
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