2025-11-11 Release WG Minutes

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

Discussions Review

 

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

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)

 

AOB

  • none

Action items