Milestone | Description | Software Criteria | Specification Criteria (adapted from Elbrus release) | Delta | Notes |
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M0 | Start of release | None | None |
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M1 | Release planning | - Determine version alignment with major upstream component (e.g., OpenStack, Kubernetes)
- RM & RA versions selected
- Prioritized features selected for implementation from specifications
- RC & RI effort scoped with owners identified
- Project release plans submitted
| - High level scope created
Created: list of Github issues with the initial content or the content proposal
- Release schedule approval requested
| M0+4w | Pankaj Goyal: Suggested changes
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Release schedule approved |
M2 | Contents Scope Freeze | - Initial RC(s) ready for RI implementation
- Jira issues assigned to release
| Updated content via PRs, matching to issues created created- High Level Issues created as per scope
- Start creating content
| M0+14w |
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M3 | Code: RC Validation Testing Spec: Content Freeze | - RC validation testing completed
- High priority Jira issues resolved
- Preliminary documentation completed
| Completion of editing and proof reading of new/updated content via PRs
- Content created matching issues
- Issues continue to be created
| M0 + 18w |
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M4 | Code: RI Validation Testing Spec: Proofreading | - RI validation testing completed
- High priority Jira issues resolved
| - Proofreading: Validate content and make corrections
- No new content
| M0+22w |
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M5 | Release Readiness | - Final documentation completed
- RI cookbook completed
- Manifest completed
- Remaining Jira issues assigned to the release closed or pushed to next release
- Release artifacts prepared
- Standalone project testing completed
| - Release content finalized
- Creation and submission of marketing highlights
| M0+25w |
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Marketing highlights page completed |
M6 | Release | - Release artifacts available for distribution
- Standalone project self-release completed
| - Release packaged (branched in GitHub), specification documents presented in the ReadTheDocs format
| M0+26w |
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