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  • 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 schedule section below.

The following table lists All CAMARA teams play their part in the meta-release milestones, and includes a high level view process. The below table provides, between the milestones, an overview of the activities expected from the various teams to reach these milestones. 

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Details on releasing an API version and the related API versioning are described here: API Release Process. 


Milestone / start date

Actors & Activities for next milestone

Timeline

Week Nr

pre-M0 activities
  • 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
activities for M1 start @ 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
activities for M2 start @ 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
activities for M3 start @ 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
activities for M4 start @ 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

activities for M5 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
activities for M6 start @ 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. An overview of the activities per team is shown in the above table.

The details on the activities for each team can be found in the below process descriptions:

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Meta-release schedule

CAMARA meta-releases are scheduled twice per year at approximately 6 month intervals (March and September). 

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