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
• Verify that there are no unmerged patches
• Release content finalized
• Creation and submission of marketing highlights
• Finalize version numbering for RM, RA1, RA2
• Traceability matrix updated

Notes on M5

M4-S

• Proofreading completed. 

Notes on M4-S

M4

• RI validation testing completed. The lead for each RI presents the validation plan and results to the TSC.
• High priority Jira issues resolved (closed or assigned to future release)
• Software projects create release branch
• Specification content created matching high level issues (M2) (Note: moved from M3, per TSC agreement Mar 29, 2022)
  • Workstream leads review PR status with TSC
  • PRs indicated as closed on the specification dashboard

Notes on M4

M3

• 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)
• RI2 development completed (confirmed by workstream lead)

Notes on M3

M2

• RC2 - ready to begin validation testing (statement in TSC meeting or email to TSC list)
• RC2 - coverage of RA specified
• Jira issues assigned to release for each participating project (should reflect work described in project release plan)
• High level issues identified by specification team and appear on dashboard.

Notes on M2

M1

• RC Workstream lead(s) recommend RM and RA versions to the TSC for use in the release
• RI workstream lead(s) recommend RM and RA versions to the TSC for use in the release
• RC validation plan created or updated
• RI validation plan created or updated
• Release string "Nile Release" created in Jira 
• Release string "Nile Release" created in GitHub
• Release milestone dates added to GitHub
• PTLs submit project-level release plans
• Workstream leads complete specification planning template for release
• RC workstream leads propose plan for RC development (based on an updated RA)

Notes on M1