You are viewing an old version of this page. View the current version.
Compare with Current
View Page History
« Previous
Version 83
Next »
WIP
A CAMARA meta-release is the way CAMARA brings its APIs to market.
A meta-release consists of a set of public versions of curated APIs that went though the CAMARA meta-release process.
The purpose of this document is to define
- the milestones of the meta-release (this page), and the supporting Meta-release Process documentation
- the activities expected from the different teams to move from one milestone to the next
- the way to report progress on the meta-release itself, on the Commonalities and ICM releases and on API releases
For the schedule and content of actual planned meta-releases, see CAMARA meta-releases.
Meta-release milestones and their associated actions are used to progress and track the status of the meta-release.
- 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 Process.
The following table lists the meta-release milestones, and includes a high level view of the activities expected from the various teams to reach these milestones.
More details on these for each team are documented here:
Milestone / start date | Actors & Actions for next milestone | Timeline | Week Nr |
---|
pre-M0 | Release Management - Prepare meta-release page
- Request TSC to declare kickoff
Commonalities & ICM - Starting from previous M2, prepare scope definition for upcoming meta-release.
- Implement scope in one or more alpha releases
TSC - Declare meta-release kickoff
|
|
|
M0 | Meta-release kickoff | M0 | 0 |
starts @ M0 | Release Management - Announce M0 meta-release kick-off on all@lists.camaraproject.org
- Once available, check the final alpha releases PR of Commonalities & ICM and, if OK, submit to TSC for approval
- After TSC approval, announce M1 milestone
Commonalities & ICM - Finalize the scope definition for meta-release.
- Record scope in dedicated GitHub issue.
- Submit scope issue for TSC review
- Develop final Commonalities & ICM scope through one or more alpha releases
- Update data in the meta-release plan with each alpha release
- Create final alpha release PRs and submit to Release Management
- After TSC approval, create approved final alpha release for Commonalities & ICM
- Update the meta-release plan with the alpha release tag
API Sub Projects - Start following the scope definitions of Commonalities and ICM and assess impact on API version
TSC - Approve Commonalities and ICM scope
- Approve final alpha release PRs of Commonalities & ICM
| 2 weeks |
|
M1 | Alpha Commonalities & ICM | M0 + 2 weeks | 2 |
starts @ M1 | Commonalities & ICM - Fix bugs raised by users through one or more release-candidates
- Update release tracker on meta-release page with each release-candidate
- Create final release-candidate PR and submit to Release Management
- After TSC approval:
- Create the final release-candidate for Commonalities & ICM
- Update the meta-release page for Commonalities & ICM with release-candidate tag
Release Management - Check final release-candidate PRs of Commonalities and ICM and, if OK, submit to TSC for approval
- After TSC approval, and commit of Commonalities and ICM final release-candidate PRs, announce M2 milestone
TSC - Approve final release-candidate PRs of Commonalities & ICM
| 7 weeks |
|
M2 | Release-candidate Commonalities & ICM | M1 + 7 weeks | 9 |
starts @ M1 | API Sub Projects - Create API release tracking page for the API if it does not yet exist
- Create API release tracker for the API version to be released
- Assess final impact of final release-candidates of Commonalities and ICM scope on API(s)
- Define scope of API release:
- Record scope in dedicated GitHub issue.
- Update the release tracker with the scope issue link
- Develop API scope through one or more alpha releases
- Update the API release tracker with each alpha release
- Create first release-candidate PR and submit to Release Management
- After Release Management approval:
- Create first release-candidate for the API
- Update the API release tracker with the release-candidate tag
Release Management, for each API - Once available, check the first API release-candidate PR and, if OK, approve PR
- Announce M3 milestone with all approved API release-candidates.
TSC - Review scope of selected APIs (case by case selection)
| 9 weeks |
|
M3 | Release-candidate APIs (Code Freeze) | M1 + 9 weeks | 9 |
starts @ M3 | API Sub Projects - Fix bugs raised by API testers through one or more release-candidates
- Update API release tracker with each release-candidate
- Submit final release-candidate PR to Release Management for checking
- After final release-candidate PR approval by Release Management:
- Create final release-candidate and update API release tracker
- Create API public-release PR
- After TSC approval of the PR
- Create public-release
- Update the API release tracker with public-release tag
Release Management, for each API - Once available, check final API release-candidate PR and, if OK, approve PR
- Once available, check API public-release PR, and, if OK, ask for formal TSC approval.
- Announce M4 milestone when all API public-releases are approved by TSC
Commonalities & ICM (through M3 upto M4) - Fix bugs raised by API testers through one or more release-candidates
- Create public-release PR for Commonalities & ICM
- After Release Management check and TSC approval of the public-release PR
- Create the public-release
- Update the meta-release page with public-release tag
TSC - Formal approval of the Commonalities & ICM public-release PRs
- Formal approval API public-release PRs
| 9 weeks |
|
M4 | Public-release APIs | M3 + 9 weeks | 18 |
starts @ public-release PR for an API | Release Management - Check that all API release trackers are updated with their public-release tag for the meta-release.
- Propose meta-release content to TSC
- After TSC approval, publish the meta-release
- Announce the M5 meta-release on all@lists.camaraproject.org
TSC: | 2 weeks |
|
M5 | Meta-release | M4 + 2 weeks | 20 |
starts @ M5 | Release Management - Review release process with all teams and identify areas for improvement.
- Propose improvements for TSC approval
- After TSC approval, announce M6 milestone
TSC - Provide feedback on meta-release
- Meta-release improvements approval.
| 2 weeks |
|
M6 | Post Release Assessment | M5 + 2 weeks | 24 |
All CAMARA teams play their part in the meta-release process. The actions are listed in the above milestone table.
Additional information on the actions for all teams can be found in the below process descriptions: