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Introduction
The purpose of this document is to describe the cadence, processes, milestones, and associated tasks used in the CAMARA meta-release cycle.
See CAMARA meta-releases for information and schedule of planned meta-releases.
Meta-release Milestones
A meta-release has 6 milestones, M0 through M6 described below. For the typical milestone dates of a meta-release, please see the Meta-Release Planning.
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 Name | Actions to achieve milestone | Timeline | Week number |
---|---|---|---|---|
Kickoff - M0 | Start of meta-release cycle. | M0 | 0 | |
M1 | Initiate Commonalities & ICM |
| M0 + 2 week | 2 |
M2 | Finalize Commonalities & ICM |
| M1 + 10 weeks | 12 |
M3 | Initiate Sub-projects / APIs |
| M1 + 8 weeks | 10 |
M4 | Finalize Sub-projects / APIs |
| M3 + 10 weeks | 20 |
M5 | Meta Release |
| M4 + 2 weeks | 22 |
M6 | Post- Release |
| M5 + 2 weeks | 24 |
Meta-release cadence
CAMARA meta-releases are scheduled twice per year at approximately 6 month intervals (March and September).
Meta-releases are named SpringYY or FallYY respectively, where YY is the (short) year number. For example Fall24, Spring25, Fall25, etc.
Release contacts
Meta-releases are administered and tracked by
- the CAMARA Release Managers, supported by
- the release contacts of the Commonalities and ICM working groups
- the release contacts of the API Sub-projects
The teams can put their release contact names on the Release Contacts (Maintainers) page.
Team release contacts need to subscribe to the release management mailing list.
Processes
All CAMARA teams play their part in the meta-release process. This section describes the action of each team.
- The process to manage a meta-release roadmap is described here: Meta-Release Planning
- Details on releasing API and the related API versioning are described here: API Release Process.