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Spec has to be marked as Active before it can be implemented. In fact it behaves similar to Features but is just smaller
Kickoff
Official start of the new release. Community presents to TSC GR proposals with reason why they believe this GR is important.
GR Approved
Global requirements has been approved by the TSC.
Spec freeze
All specs and features that will be worked on in this release has been put in the Active state. This is the maximal set of features that can be achieved in this release.
Feature freeze
We no longer accept commits that adds new features. Only bug fixes are accepted (Jira ticket has to be of type Bug). All projects that didn't met GR will be reverted to the container image from previous release.
At this point we know exactly what has been implemented.
RC0
We branch out release branch. On the master branch the work for next release may start and on our release branch we focus on stabilization, bug fixing and testing.
Sign-off
We officially announce our new release.