Assumptions:

• Release, Security and Documentation scopes are now tracked via JIRA
• Adoption to “Do not break the build” principle
• No Vendor equipment is required for this release
• No new VNF requirement identified by the project team
• Jenkins Jobs Failures are monitored and fixed by the project team
• Health check and regression tests issues are reported by the Integration Team
• Project Team defines their Sprint content based on TSC prioritization to meet the delivery deadlines
• Inform TSC about any descope content post-M1 before changing FixVersion

JIRA Template

Note that these Epics and Tasks are cloned into the JIRA project for each individual ONAP project.

M1 

• Scope with jira tickets labeled i.e. “El-Alto Early Drop” (intermediate delivery) AND fixVersion El-Alto (complete scope)

• Any Architecture changes (Y/N)? Yes then require a ArchComm review plan
• Any API changes Y/N
• Any Data Model change Y/N
• Any Impact on other components (Y/N)
• Platform maturity goals == Dublin goals - update M1 Target
• New 3rd party dependencies, new FOSS? Y/N
• CII badging update
• Change build process to adopt new oparent
• Project specific test plan (automated unit test, sanity test/CSIT, pair-wise testing, etc) for Early Drop and full scope
• 55% code coverage (set final goal after accessing jScript impacts) 

+ Fix waiver granted by the TSC from previous release

M2/M3

• API docs complete
• Data Models (e.g, JSON, YANG, Swagger, etc.) shared with Modeling/Community
• Architecture Review complete (if required)
• No Gerrit requests older than 36 hrs.
• Provide docker to integration testing for El Alto Early Drop
• OOM port list update
• Fix any Integration blocker - Daily status updates on integration blockers, Highest/High issues
• Review and plan resolution of any License scan, security issues
• Begin release notes for Early Drop
• Update Risk Register

M4

• License scan issues addressed
• Address all security issues
• All high/highest priority jira tickets addressed
• Update Platform maturity goals, CII badging update - update M4 Result
• Test coverage goals complete
• No Gerrit requests older than 36 hrs.
• Integration weather board update
• Update Risk Register

RCx

• All high/highest priority jira tickets addressed
• Remaining License scan, security critical issues addressed
• Update Release note and documentation
• Docker images “Release” dues 
• Project specific test plan for El Alto completed
• Update Risk Register
• Integration Weather Board complete
• Versioning at the project level
• Check the certification expiry of your application. It should be valid for the next 9 months after RC0.

Sign-off

• Remaining high/highest priority jira tickets addressed or workaround documented
• Close/move all open/in-process jiras to a future release
• Integration "Sign-Off" on Docker images “Release” 
• Release notes and documentation completed
• OOM tag release and version in helm chart