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Planned deadlines

Milestone	Planned deadline	Actual deadline	Description of the Milestone	Comments
M0	date as initially planned	date as really committed	Declaration of participation in the simultaneous release Blueprint proposal represented as a Jira EPIC ticket Feature lead assigned to Jira Epic ticket The initial version of Increment Blueprint stored on github/tf-spec/Release folder, The blueprint presented, discussed and approved by

TSC

Blueprint proposal represented as a Jira EPIC ticket

M1
related approvers Release Scope Overview updated accordingly, agreed, approved by TSC The initial version of the Release Plan for the project presented Dependencies between projects/components/areas identified Participating projects and initial Release scope approved by TSC	problems, decisions, reasons for the delay, etc

all

projects

existing functionality and requested change/feature discussed and agreed by PTL and related approvers (based on Modules/Commiters)
Jira Epic ticket broken down into stories in related Jira project (backlog, plan) - presented and discussed on TWS meeting
The final version of

Increment

Blueprints, Release Scope and Release Plans for participating projects discussed and approved by

TSC

approvers
M2			Technical design fully provided,

agreed

agreed (documentation on the Confluence/github/tf-spec available) Jira Epic ticket updated with link to technical design Documentation started Feature tests started Feature/Functionality Freeze - Technical Design approved by relevant approvers (Modules/Commiters)
M3			External API available for beta-tests Jira Epic ticket updated with information about API availability (documentation link - tf repo) Documentation in progress Tests in progress API Freeze confirmed by Feature Lead (comment on Jira Epic ticket with repo/commit ID link)
M4			all functionality and APIs available for testing Jira Epic ticket updated with information about final API documentation, executed UI tests documentation

Code freeze

Documentation provided - confirmed by Documentation project PTL Code freeze confirmed by Feature Lead (comment on Jira Epic ticket) - only bug fixing allowed
RC0			Release candidates agreed, approved, tested System tests conducted, quality confirmed by CI/CD PTL (should we have some QA? Security?) Final documentation provided, reviewed, approved by Documentation PTL Marketing information provided to Marketing Advisory Council - confirmed by Brandon Wick? release branch cut off - branch stabilization from now on Release Candidates freeze, confirmed by PTL and TSC(?)
Deployment			official deployment executed

Planned scope

Project

Scope

Dependencies

Project Name (link)

Overall description of the project's increment in the particular release

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