5 OpenDaylight releases twice per year. The six-month cadence is designed to
6 synchronize OpenDaylight releases with OpenStack and OPNFV releases. Dates
7 are adjusted to match current resources and requirements from the current
8 OpenDaylight users. Dates are also adjusted when they conflict with holidays,
9 overlap with other releases or are otherwise problematic.
10 Dates are the release deadlines intended for managed projects.
11 Self-managed projects that wants to integrate the distribution have one week
12 to release once managed projects are ready.
15 :widths: 20 20 20 20 20 40
20 - **Phosphorus Dates**
23 - **Start-Relative Dates**
31 - Declare Intention: Submit **Project_Plan** Jira item in TSC project.
32 * - Initial Checkpoint
37 - Initial Checkpoint. All Managed Projects must have completed
38 **Project_Plan** Jira items in TSC project.
39 * - Release Integrated Deadline
42 - Initial Checkpoint + 2 weeks
44 - Deadline for Release Integrated Projects (currently, ODLPARENT,
45 YANGTOOLS, MDSAL, CONTROLLER and INFRAUTILS) to provide the desired
46 version deliverables for downstream Snapshot Integrated Projects to
51 - Release Integrated Deadline + 1 day
52 - Start Date +4 weeks 1 day
53 - Prepare version bump patches and merge them in (RelEng team). Spend the
54 next 2 weeks to get green build for all MSI Projects and a healthy
56 * - Version Bump Checkpoint
59 - Release Integrated Deadline + 2 weeks
61 - Check status of MSI Projects to see if we have green builds and a
62 healthy distribution. Revert the MRI deliverables if deemed necessary.
66 - Version Bump Checkpoint + 2 weeks
68 - All Managed Release CSIT should be in good shape - get all MSI Projects'
69 CSIT results as they were before the version bump. This is the final
70 opportunity to revert the MRI deliverables if deemed necessary.
74 - CSIT Checkpoint + 8 weeks (sometimes +2 weeks to avoid December holidays)
75 - Start Date +16 weeks (sometimes +2 weeks to avoid December holidays)
76 - Checkpoint for status of Managed Projects - especially Snapshot
81 - Middle Checkpoint + 4 weeks
82 - Start Date +20 weeks
83 - Code freeze for all Managed Projects - cut and lock release branch. Only
84 allow blocker bugfixes in release branch.
88 - Code Freeze + 2 weeks
89 - Start Date +22 weeks
90 - Final Checkpoint for all Managed Projects.
94 - 6 months after Start Date
95 - Start Date +6 months
96 - Formal Release for Managed Projects. Self-managed projects usually are released a week later.
100 - 1.5 month after Formal Release
101 - Start Date +7.5 months
102 - Service Release 1 (SR1)
103 * - Service Release 2
107 - Start Date +10.5 months
108 - Service Release 2 (SR2)
109 * - Service Release 3
113 - Start Date +14 months
114 - Service Release 3 (SR3)
115 * - Service Release 4
120 - Service Release 4 (SR4) - Final Service Release
121 * - Release End of Life
125 - Start Date +18 months
126 - End of Life - coincides with the Formal Release of the current release+2
127 versions and the start of the current release+3 versions.