M5

•  Final documentation completed
•  RI cookbook completed
•  Remaining Jira issues assigned to the release closed or pushed to next release
•  Prepare release artifacts
  • Tag the version of artifacts to be released
    •  releng job updated to use release branch instead of master
  • Release manager collects artifact references from PTLs and communicates those to releng
  • Releng moves artifacts to hosting location and provides URLs to RM
  • RM verifies URLs
  • RM provides confirmed URL list to website manager (aka Brandon) for publication on the website
•  Standalone project testing completed
•  Release content finalized
•  Creation and submission of marketing highlights
•  Finalize version numbering for RM, RA1, RA2
•  Traceability matrix updated

M4

•  RI validation testing completed. The lead for each RI presents the validation plan and results to the TSC.
•  Proofreading completed. 
•  High priority Jira issues resolved (closed or assigned to future release)

Notes on M4

• RI1 is unsupported per TSC agreement at M1
• RI2 validation is ambiguous since we have not yet established criteria 

M3

•  RC1 - RC workstream lead confirms successful completion of validation test plan (statement in TSC meeting or email to TSC list)
•  RC2 - RC workstream lead confirms successful completion of validation test plan (statement in TSC meeting or email to TSC list)
•  High priority Jira issues resolved (closed or assigned to future release)
•  Preliminary documentation completed (confirmed by DOCs team)
•  RI1 development completed (confirmed by workstream lead)
•  RI2 development completed (confirmed by workstream lead)
•  Specification content created matching high level issues (M2)
  •  Workstream leads review PR status with TSC
  •  PRs indicated as closed on the specification dashboard

...