2025-11-11 Release WG Minutes
Community Attendees:
@Alberto Ramos Monaga
Community Attendees:
@Jan Friman @Tanja de Groot
LF Staff:
@Casey Cain
Agenda
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Action Items Review
Discussion Review
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: Release Management Working Group
link to automation wish list wiki page: https://lf-camaraproject.atlassian.net/wiki/x/GYADC
actions were checked but most are still open
Discussions Review
See camaraproject/ReleaseManagement · Discussions · GitHub: No new discussion.
Spring26 meta-release (Spring26 meta-release )
New Spring26 and Fall26 schedules, and generally the new meta-release schedule were approved in the TSC on Nov 6. The below pages were updated to remove the preliminary warnings.
Also the base concept of the release management automation, based on release-plan.yaml files, was presented to TSC
A similar introduction presentation will be done on the AHC on November 13. (check slide).
New meta-release naming : please check & comment https://github.com/camaraproject/Governance/issues/200 .
TSC - ask for resolution proposal e.g. a vote of top list - decision in the TSC after that. @Herbert Damker will summarize the status in the issue and send to TSC.
Vote to been opened by Casey.
Voters: TSC Participants + Outreach Committee needs to be clarified
Need to open 2 votes and add the results (due to system restrictions)
@Casey Cain to check with @Herbert Damker on the voting scope.
M1
The M1 date in the new preliminary schedule is nov 30 (see Spring26 meta-release )
Note: APIs are recommended to target the Fall26 Meta-release, but some exceptions can be discussed.
For these exceptions, the concerned APIs should be aware that the Spring26 schedule is very tight.
M1 Commonalities & ICM
Commonalities Spring26 scope issue: Scope of the Spring release #543
Commonalities will skip the M1 alpha release - API teams can check the Commonalities milestones for status.
ICM Spring26 scope issue: ICM scope for the Spring26 meta-release #311
M1 APIs (Spring26 is not recommended for APIs)
Requests for Spring26 participation are to be done through a GitHub issue in Release Management
M2
Target date is Jan 31, 2026 for the release-candidate of Commonalities & ICM.
M3
Due on Jan 31, 2026 for Spring APIs that have been granted participation.
Issues review - Release Management
See Issues · camaraproject/ReleaseManagement - progress is logged in the issues
badges for test statements:
can be assigned to repositories
needs design, needs a clear list/justication/guideline (goals, requirements, etc)
should be automated (using workflows) based on meta-data
Issues review - CAMARA Project Administration (repository)
repository link: project-administration
Issue reviewed, remain open.
AOB
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