2025-09-23 Release WG Minutes
Community Attendees:
@Rafal Artych @Herbert Damker @Tanja de Groot
Community Attendees:
@Samuel Adeyemo @Alberto Ramos Monaga
LF Staff:
@Casey Cain
Agenda
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Action Items Review
Discussion Review
Fall25 meta-release
Spring26 meta-release
Issues review - Release Management
Issues review - CAMARA Project Administration (repository)
AOB
Minutes
Approval of previous meeting’s minutes: no comments - approved
Action Items Review
See action items list here: https://lf-camaraproject.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CAM/pages/14552660
GSMA meeting: team to look for criteria for “pre-stable” APIs in the list of initial updated APIs (quality over quantity) - use e.g. “recommended for stable”
Update the CAMARA home page with links to latest commonalities and Fall25 meta-release @Herbert Damker Done during the call
Discussions Review
See camaraproject/ReleaseManagement · Discussions · GitHub: No new discussion.
Fall25 meta-release (https://lf-camaraproject.atlassian.net/wiki/x/FQApAg?atlOrigin=eyJpIjoiZWIyZGY3YWY4Yzk2NGQxNWFjODlkZGNmYmFmYTVkMDIiLCJwIjoiYyJ9)
M4
M4 declaration: approval of M4 done in the September 18 TSC meeting.
Announcement email is waiting for the release of the WebRTC API (RM approval was done) - release was available just before the call.
M5
M5 date: M5 declaration in the TSC meeting on September 18.
Marketing target event - proposed: Webinar on e.g. Oct 9. Press release a week before.
40 Fall25 API repositories with 60 APIs are part of the meta-release
10 stable API
23 new initial APIs
27 updated Fall25 initial APIs
ScamSignal API released by GSMA as well in line with Fall25 Commonalities and ICM guidelines
Announcement email to include
links -@Herbert Damker to inform Tanja when home page is done
the announcement of the webinar - Tanja to find the link e.g. on LinkedIn
@Tanja de Groot to send the Fall25 meta-release availability email to camara-all mailing list
M6
feedback on the release cycle cadence change proposal: see Proposal to Adopt a Dual-Phase Meta-Release Cadence for CAMARA APIs · Issue #194 · camaraproject/Governance and Rethink the overall meta-release strategy for comments · camaraproject/KnowYourCustomerMatch · Discussion #35
release-management repo release (tbd)
automation proposal is for review (CAMARA Release workflow and metadata proposal - PR #257)
positive feedback on the centralized linting
Spring26 meta-release (https://lf-camaraproject.atlassian.net/wiki/x/AQB_Cg)
Commonalities and ICM are preparing content for Spring26
Use the scope issue to the define the milestones
@Rafal Artychto check details
open an issue to check how progress checking could work with milestones @Tanja de Groot
New meta-release schedule proposal following the feedback in Dual Phase proposal: see
INITIAL DRAFT: New meta-release plan - CAMARA Project - CAMARA Project
@Tanja de Groot split schedule figure into APIs and Commonalities + ICM time lines.
Comm & ICM milestone 6 months earlier than today
Comm & ICM public release (M4) to be done 3 months before Fall APIs M4
Proposal to be prepared by Release Mgmt team for discussion with Commonalities / ICM and in next TSC end of September
Issues review - Release Management
See Issues · camaraproject/ReleaseManagement - progress is logged in the issues
Include only relevant documents into released archives - #299 - converted to Q&A discussion - needs closing remark and change to answered. @Tanja de Groot
Template for Release Information section in README.md needed - #273 - Proposal by Herbert available.
@all to review the proposal by next week's Release Management meeting
Develop automation support in support of release management - #191 - keep open - check what has been covered first then close. continue on wiki (wish list with checkboxes), in tooling and in issue #257
CAMARA Release workflow and metadata proposal - PR #257:
@all to review the PR by next week's Release Management meeting
Issues review - CAMARA Project Administration (repository)
repository link: project-administration
no new issues
AOB
none