Release Cadence & Phases
Major Releases...
Consist 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
Severity | Definition |
Blocker | Showstopper! The highest level of your prioritization schema. Everything possible needs to be done to solve this issue. |
Critical | Crucial issues that block the customer from performing some functionality, making the software unusable. |
Major | Mostly important, but neither critical nor a showstopper. |
Minor | Not very important, but still bringing some benefit that should be considered for implementation |