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<p class="MsoNormal">We’ve been working on a draft release policy in the Release team.  Please review and share your comments, feedback or suggestions in the etherpad or on this thread.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The draft is located at <a href="https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/stx-release-policy-draft">
https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/stx-release-policy-draft</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">      Brucej<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Release Policy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">The StarlingX project determines release schedules based on when the release content is ready to be released.  We should explicitly move away from the idea of time based
 releases.  We should continue our current twice per year release cycle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">We should consider changing our release naming convention to something that doesn't include dates.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">The Release team, together with the Test team TLs/PLs, shall make a recommendation to the community and TSC that a release is ready to go.  Upon TSC approval, the release
 branches are tagged and the release documented.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">That recommendation should be based on:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Whether or not all anchor features in the release are complete, as per the input of the team(s) implementing the features and the results of Test team testing
 of the features<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Assumption: The TSC will create a list of approved features during the release planning process, and that some (or all) of these features will be identified
 by the TSC as "release gating" or "anchor" features that would block a release if not complete.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Assumption: We are planning our releases at the PTG meetings every 6 months.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">The results of formal Testing performed by the Test team, measured by the percentage of planned tests attempted and the test pass rate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Proposal: 100% test cases attemped and 95% test cases passing in all configurations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">The severity and number of bugs open against the release<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Proposal: No open Critical or High severity bugs against the release candidate.  Or maybe 1-3 Highs if we have a clear resolution plan (and a plan to release
 a patch against the release?)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">See Bug Severity definitions below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">We should discuss the option of doing a mid-cycle “bug fix” release against the latest release – allowing key defects to get fixed more rapidly.  In such a case, the
 release team would make a recommendation to the TSC to approve the release plan and content.  If approved by the TSC, the fixes shall be cherry-picked or merged into the release branch and a new build tested (and managed as per this policy).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Critical</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">: The software does not operate as intended (e.g. the software fails to
 install,  does not run, crashes, etc...).  Or the issue is a Securty/CVE issue with a rating of Critical or High.  In Launchpad this is "Fix as soon as possible"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">High</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">: An important feature of the software does not operate as intended (e.g. live
 migration, fault reporting, etc...).  Or the issue is a Security/CVE issue with a rating of Medium or lower.  In Launchpad this is "Fix soon".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Medium</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">: A minor feature of the software does not operate as intended or there is
 an intermitant failure.  In Launchpad this is "Fix when convienent or schedule to fix later".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Low</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">: A bug that does not impact normal operation of the software.  In Launchpad
 this is "Fix when convienent".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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