Sprint 111

Apr 9, 2021 

Notify community regarding sharing information of new modules

Sprint 112 

Apr 23, 2021 

Deadline for requests to add new modules to the reference environments

Sprint 114

May 17, 2021 

Okapi/RMB/SpringWay readiness review

RC review released platform components and facilitate meeting with unreleased components owners to discuss available impediments/issues/problems to understand when component could be released

May 21, 2021 

Okapi/RMB/SpringWay freeze

Okapi/Stripes/RMB/SpringWay freeze and deadline for initial releases of platform components. 

No breaking changes to the platform after this date.

Feature development freeze for R2 2021 release period. No new feature can not be added after this date. DoD for features has been met. Only defects are expected tie to R2 2021 period. Separate release branch has to be created after feature freeze date. All R2 2021 bug fixed have to be applied to both release and Master branches. Next R3 2021 release period feature development is expected on Master branch.

Sprint 115

May 24, 2021 - Jun 4, 2021 

Teams upgrade to the platform components

Teams upgrade to the platform components versions that were released.

May 24, 2021

Bugfest environment preparation kick-off

Conduct meeting for review Bugfest preparation plan

Create appropriate Rally tickets in EBSCO FSE backlog

Review list of new modules

Review data cleanup

Review new data

May 28, 2021 

Major interface version provided to be updated

Modules feature development  freeze R2 2021 - Platform core modules / New modules pre-release

Feature development freeze for R2 2021 release period. No new feature can not be added after this date. DoD for features has been met. Only defects are expected tie to R2 2021 period. Separate release branch has to be created after feature freeze date. All R2 2021 bug fixed have to be applied to both release and Master branches. Next R3 2021 release period feature development is expected on Master branch.

May 31, 2021 -Jun 4, 2021 

Schema upgrade testing week (BE core modules)

Jun 4, 2021

Review upgrade to platform components status.

RC review upgraded components and facilitate meeting with non-upgraded components owners to discuss available impediments/issues/problems to understand when component could be upgraded

Modules feature development freeze R2 2021 - Platform complete modules / New modules pre-release

Feature development freeze for R2 2021 release period. No new feature can not be added after this date. DoD for features has been met. Only defects are expected tie to R2 2021 period. Separate release branch has to be created after feature freeze date. All R2 2021 bug fixed have to be applied to both release and Master branches. Next R3 2021 release period feature development is expected on Master branch.

Sprint 116

Jun 7, 2021 - Jun 11, 2021 

Schema upgrade testing week

Major modules versions should be released. Schema upgrade have to be released and tested locally by each team.

Jun 7, 2021 - Jun 18, 2021 

Teams modules releases

Jun 7, 2021 - Jun 8, 2021 

Platform Core Back End (Storage) modules releases

Jun 9, 2021 - Jun 10, 2021 

Platform Core Back End (Business logic) modules releases

Jun 10, 2021 - Jun 11, 2021 

Platform Core Front End modules releases

Platform Complete Back End (Storage) modules releases

Jun 14, 2021 - Jun 16, 2021 

Platform complete BE (Business logic) modules releases

Jun 16, 2021 - Jun 18, 2021 

Platform complete Front End modules releases

Jun 14, 2021  (Monday)

Modules release readiness review

RC review released modules and facilitate meeting with unreleased modules owners to discuss available impediments/issues/problems to understand when module could be released). Major interface version provided to be updated

Jun 18, 2021 

Schema upgrade testing review

RC review upgraded modules and facilitate meeting with non-upgraded  modules owners to discuss available impediments/issues/problems to understand when schema could be upgraded.

Jun 18, 2021 

Final Review modules release readiness

RC review released modules and facilitate meeting with unreleased modules owners to discuss available impediments/issues/problems to understand when module could be released

Module release deadline

All modules must see R2-compatible releases by this date

Sprint 117

Jun 21, 2021 

Contact with devops

Review release information. Up to date versions should be set

Jun 21, 2021 

Test case creation deadline

Jun 21, 2021 - Jun 25, 2021 

Release integration week

Bugfest environment preparation, testing of schema and data migration by EBSCO FSE team

Sprint 118 - Sprint 119 - Sprint 120

Jul 12, 2021 - Aug 6, 2021 

Release testing and hardening period

Sprint 118 - Sprint 119

Jul 12, 2021 - Jul 23, 2021 

Functional testing (Bug Fest)

Execute all TestRail test cases

Jul 12, 2021 - Jul 23, 2021 

Performance testing

Sprint 119 - Sprint 120

Jul 26, 2021 - Aug 6, 2021 

Ongoing triage and bug fixing of bugs begins immediately

Sprint 120

Aug 3, 2021 

Bugfix releases readiness

RC review bugfix dashboard and facilitate meeting with unresolved modules owners to discuss available impediments/issues/problems to understand when module could be released

Aug 6, 2021 

Bugfix releases deadline

Aug 9, 2021 - Aug 12, 2021

Smoke testing

Sprint 121

Aug 16, 2021 

Release is public