Release Management Overview and Guidance

ODIM Release Management Process

Revised January 20, 2021

Cadence and Release Phases

Three scheduled major releases each year.

Major Release

Consists of:

• Feature development (minus 4 months to minus 4 weeks)
  • New features, changes and enhancements to existing features, and/or bug fixes.
• Integration period (minus 4 weeks to minus 2 weeks)
  • Milestone: Feature Freeze at release minus 4 weeks.
  • Integration, QA and testing of the different contributions.
• Release Candidate period (minus 2 weeks to minus 1 day).
  • Milestone: The RC0 build.
  • During RC Period, fix blocker & critical defects. Other defects deferred to next cycle.
  • New blocker and critical bugs will be fixed and will trigger a new RC build.
  • Release Criteria: no blocker or critical defects.
  • End of Release Candidate Period (day before release date)
• Major Release (release date)
  • Milestone: Release
  • Build the new release
  • Major Release goes live and is available to download
    During RC Period, fix blocker & critical defects. Other defects deferred to next cycle.
  • New blocker and critical bugs will be fixed and will trigger a new RC build.
  • Release Criteria: no blocker or critical defects.
  • End of Release Candidate Period (day before release date)

Release Naming

The release names are YY.MM – for example, the first ODIM release is January 31, 2021 and it is named 21.01.

Defect Severity and Definition