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Schedule

Schedule Milestones

The following graphic shows the timeline of phases and milestones associated with each release:

Schedule Milestones Graphic

This shows how the phases and milestones of one release overlap with those of the next release:

Overlapping Release Schedules Graphic

Milestone Definitions

Milestone Also Called Definition
P0 Planning Kickoff
  • Start Entering Requirements
P1
  • TSC Agrees on Major Features and Schedule
M0 Merge Window Open
  • All features, Sized, and Assigned
  • Merge Window Is Opened
M1 M1 Checkpoint
  • Major Features Ready for Code Reviews
  • Test Plans Reviewed and Approved
M2 Feature Merge Window Close
  • Feature Freeze
  • Feature Development Complete (including Code Reviews and Unit Tests Passing)
  • P1 Stories Implemented
  • Feature Merge Window Is Closed
  • Test Development Complete
  • Technical Documentation Created/Updated and Ready for Review
  • CCB Control Starts
M3 Code Freeze
  • Code Freeze
  • RC3 Tagged and Built
M4 Release
  • TSC Reviews the Release Criteria Report and Approves Release
  • Final RC Tagged
  • Make the Release

Actual and planned milestone dates

Version 2.3 (current) 2.4
P0 2019/12/20 2020/03/20
P1 2020/01/10 2020/04/10
M0 2020/03/10 2020/05/29
M1 2020/04/10 2020/08/07
M2 2020/05/08 2020/09/04
M3 2020/05/22 2020/09/18
M4 2020/05/29 2020/09/25

In italic, actual schedule.

The 2.3 and 2.4 schedules are speculative

Note, as per the TSC F2F of 2019/10/31, releases after and including 2.4 have a 4 month cadence.
The figures above still reflect a 3 month cadence which applies until and including release 2.3.

Past releases' schedules

Version 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 2.0 2.1 2.2
P0 2017/09/20 2017/12/27 2018/03/21 2018/06/27 2019/02/08 2019/06/28 2019/09/20
P1 2017/10/11 2018/01/10 2018/04/11 2018/07/18 2019/03/01 2019/07/19 2019/10/11
M0 2017/11/29 2018/02/28 2018/05/30 2018/09/05 2019/04/16 2019/09/06 2019/12/09
M1 2017/12/27 2018/03/21 2018/06/20 2018/09/26 2019/05/31 2019/10/11 2020/01/10
M2 2018/01/10 2018/04/11 2018/08/11 2019/02/08 2019/08/11 2019/11/10 2020/02/08
M3 2018/03/02 2018/05/23 2018/08/29 2019/03/15 2019/09/03 2019/12/03 2020/02/29
M4 2018/03/09 2018/05/30 2018/09/05 2019/04/16 2019/09/06 2019/12/09 2020/03/10

2.0 Release and freeze dates were delayed by 6 weeks to account for the summer holidays

Schedule Details

For more details about the project phases, milestones, etc. see More Schedule Details

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