Program Management

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Schedule

Schedule Milestones

The following graphic shows the timeline of phases and milestones associated with each release:

This shows how the phases and milestones of one release overlap with those of the next release:

Milestone Definitions

Milestone	Also Called	Definition
P0	Planning Kickoff	Start Entering Requirements
P1		TSC Agrees on Major Features and Schedule
M0	Merge Window Open	All features, Sized, and Assigned Merge Window Is Opened
M1	M1 Checkpoint	Major Features Ready for Code Reviews Test Plans Reviewed and Approved
M2	Feature Merge Window Close	Feature Freeze Feature Development Complete (including Code Reviews and Unit Tests Passing) P1 Stories Implemented Feature Merge Window Is Closed Test Development Complete Technical Documentation Created/Updated and Ready for Review CCB Control Starts
M3	Code Freeze	Code Freeze RC3 Tagged and Built
M4	Release	TSC Reviews the Release Criteria Report and Approves Release Final RC Tagged Make the Release

Actual and planned milestone dates

Version	2.5	2.6	2.7 (LTS2)	3.0
M0	2020/09/27
M1	2021/12/11
M2	2021/01/22	2021/05/07	2021/08/27
M3	2021/02/05	2021/05/21	2021/09/24
M4	2021/02/12	2021/06/04	2021/10/15	2022/02/11

2.7 Release (LTS) Details:

• Feature Freeze: August 27th, 2021
• Code Freeze: September 24th, 2021 and master opens for 3.0
• Release Date: October 15th, 2021

3.0 Release:

• Master open for 3.0: September 24th
• Release Date: February 11th, 2022

In italic, actual schedule.

Note, as per the TSC F2F of 2019/10/31, releases after and including 2.4 have a 4 month cadence.
The figures above still reflect a 3 month cadence which applies until and including release 2.3.

Past releases' schedules

Version	1.11	1.12	1.13	1.14	2.0	2.1	2.2	2.3	2.4
P0	2017/09/20	2017/12/27	2018/03/21	2018/06/27	2019/02/08	2019/06/28	2019/09/20	2019/12/20	2020/03/20
P1	2017/10/11	2018/01/10	2018/04/11	2018/07/18	2019/03/01	2019/07/19	2019/10/11	2020/01/10	2020/04/10
M0	2017/11/29	2018/02/28	2018/05/30	2018/09/05	2019/04/16	2019/09/06	2019/12/09	2020/03/10	2020/06/05
M1	2017/12/27	2018/03/21	2018/06/20	2018/09/26	2019/05/31	2019/10/11	2020/01/10	2020/04/10	2020/08/07
M2	2018/01/10	2018/04/11	2018/08/11	2019/02/08	2019/08/11	2019/11/10	2020/02/08	2020/05/08	2020/09/05
M3	2018/03/02	2018/05/23	2018/08/29	2019/03/15	2019/09/03	2019/12/03	2020/02/29	2020/05/22	2020/09/24
M4	2018/03/09	2018/05/30	2018/09/05	2019/04/16	2019/09/06	2019/12/09	2020/03/10	2020/05/29	2020/09/27

Schedule Details

For more details about the project phases, milestones, etc. see More Schedule Details