[platform-releng-dev] Next week is Photon M7 milestone week

["Jayaprakash Arthanareeswaran" <jarthana@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

Next week is the
milestone week for Photo M7. Please note that this will be the last milestone
for new features.
Here is the schedule

• Monday: Last day of development (and even then, no "big changes"). After Monday 20:00 ET, no feature work or unrelated fixes are allowed -- only regression fixes.
• Tuesday:One-day test pass. Please reserve this day for testing alone.
• Wednesday: Fix day with a focus on fixing regressions found during the test day (Tuesday). No unrelated fixes. Review and thoroughly test all commits.
  • The last Wednesday build is the release candidate every team signs off on Thursday.
  • Please take a moment to go through the N&N website to check if everything is in order - https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.8/M7/
• Thursday: Sign-off after re-testing, or at least confirming no changes have been made to your component's code since the last time the component was tested well.
• Friday: Build is officially declared and made available.
  • The master branch stays closed until the milestone is officially released. (That is, it is not enough that your component has signed off.)

Regards,
Jay