5 OpenDaylight releases twice per year, on the Thursdays closest to March 7th and
8 The six-month aspect of the cadence is designed to synchronize OpenDaylight
9 releases with OpenStack and OPNFV releases. The closest-Thursday aspect is
10 designed to cause release events to occur on the same day as TSC meetings.
11 Dates may be manually adjusted if they conflict with holidays or are otherwise
15 :widths: 20 20 20 20 20 40
23 - **Start-Relative Date**
31 - Declare Intention: Submit **Project_Plan** Jira item in TSC project
33 * - Initial Checkpoint
36 - Start Date + 2 weeks
38 - Initial Checkpoint. All Managed Projects must have completed
39 **Project_Plan** Jira items in TSC project.
41 * - Release Integrated Deadline
44 - Initial Checkpoint + 2 weeks
46 - Deadline for Release Integrated Projects (currently ODLPARENT and
47 YANGTOOLS) to provide the desired version deliverables for downstream
48 Snapshot Integrated Projects to consume.
53 - Release Integrated Deadline + 1 day
54 - Start Date +4 weeks 1 day
55 - Prepare version bump patches and merge them in (RelEng team). Spend the
56 next 2 weeks to get green build for all MSI Projects and a healthy
59 * - Version Bump Checkpoint
62 - Release Integrated Deadline + 2 weeks
64 - Check status of MSI Projects to see if we have green builds and a
65 healthy distribution. Revert the MRI deliverables if deemed necessary.
70 - Version Bump Checkpoint + 2 weeks
72 - All Managed Release CSIT should be in good shape - get all MSI Projects'
73 CSIT results as they were before the version bump. This is the final
74 opportunity to revert the MRI deliverables if deemed necessary.
79 - CSIT Checkpoint + 8 weeks (+2 weeks to avoid holidays)
80 - Start Date +16 weeks (+2 weeks to avoid holidays)
81 - Checkpoint for status of Managed Projects - especially Snapshot
87 - Middle Checkpoint + 4 weeks
88 - Start Date +20 weeks
89 - Code freeze for all Managed Projects - cut and lock release branch. Only
90 allow blocker bugfixes in release branch.
95 - Code Freeze + 2 weeks
96 - Start Date +22 weeks
97 - Final Checkpoint for all Managed Projects.
102 - 6 months after Start Date
103 - Start Date +6 months
106 * - Service Release 1
109 - 1 month after Formal Release
110 - Start Date +7 months
111 - Service Release 1 (SR1)
113 * - Service Release 2
117 - Start Date +9 months
118 - Service Release 2 (SR2)
120 * - Service Release 3
124 - Start Date +11 months
125 - Service Release 3 (SR3)
127 * - Service Release 4
131 - Start Date +14 months
132 - Service Release 4 (SR4) - final service release
134 * - Release End of Life
138 - Start Date +18 months
139 - End of Life - coincides with the Formal Release of the current release+2
140 versions and the start of the current release+3 versions