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For the schedule and content of actual planned meta-releases, see CAMARA meta-releases.

Meta-release

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milestones

Meta-release milestones and their associated actions are used to progress and track the status of the meta-release. 

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Milestone / start date

Actors & Activities for next milestone

Timeline

Week Nr

pre-M0
  • Release Management: prepare meta-release plan
  • Commonalities & ICM: define scope and start alpha release development
  • TSC: declare M0 - meta-release kickoff


M0 

Meta-release kickoff

M00
starts @ M0
  • Commonalities & ICM: fix scope and develop final alpha release for M1
  • API Sub Groups: check Commonalities and ICM scope definition to assess API impact
  • TSC: approve Commonalities and ICM scope and final alpha release
  • Release Management: Declare M1 - Commonalities and ICM alpha release available
2 weeks

M1

Alpha Commonalities & ICMM0 + 2 weeks2
starts @ M1
  • API Sub Groups: align to Commonalities and ICM alpha release and provide feedback
  • Commonalities & ICM: Fix bugs and prepare final release-candidate for M2
  • TSC: approve Commonalities and ICM final release-candidate
  • Release Management; declare M2 - Commonalities and ICM release-candidate available
7 weeks

M2

Release-candidate Commonalities & ICMM1 + 7 weeks9
starts @ M1
  • API Sub Projects: prepare API scope and develop alpha releases, ending by the first release-candidate for M3
  • TSC: review scope of APIs (case by case selection)
  • Release Management: check API readiness of each API and declare M3 - all API first release-candidates available
9 weeks

M3

Release-candidate APIs (Code Freeze)

M1 + 9 weeks

9
starts @ M3
  • API Sub Projects: fix bugs and prepare public-release
  • Commonalities & ICM: prepare public-release
  • Release Management: check API readiness of each API and declare M4 - all API public-releases available
  • TSC: give formal approval of Commonalities, ICM and API (case-by-case) public-releases
9 weeks

M4

Public-release APIs

M3 + 9 weeks

18

starts @ public-release PR for an API

  • Release Management: prepare and declare M5 - meta-release availability
  • TSC: approve meta-release for M5
2 weeks

M5

Meta-releaseM4 + 2 weeks20
starts @ M5
  • Commonalities & ICM: assess meta-release and provide feedback
  • API Sub Groups: assess meta-release and provide feedback
  • Release Management: assess meta-release, create improvement plan and declare M6 - post-release assessment available
  • TSC: approve improvement plan for M6
2 weeks

M6

Post Release AssessmentM5 + 2 weeks24

Processes

All CAMARA teams play their part in the meta-release process. The actions are listed An overview of the activities per team is shown in the above milestone table.

Additional information The details on the actions activities for all teams each team can be found in the below process descriptions:

  • The process to manage a meta-release is described here: Meta-release Process
  • The process for the Commonalities and ICM teams is described here: Commonalities and ICM release process
  • Details on releasing an API version and the related API versioning are described here: API Release Process

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