Release Checklist

K-Release

Category	Checkpoint	Status: Yes/No/NA	Who	Comment / Evidence / How-To?
Operations	TOC Voting on the release approval.	YES	TOC	19th December 2024
	Article on Release	YES	Marketing Team	@sally cooper Blog vs PR. Target: 15th Jan.
Development	Completion of the committed features	YES*	Projects (PTL)	Check this Link: K-Release Completed: All projects MUST have documented the highlights. Missing: RIC-APPs.
	Moving the features that were not completed to next release (if any)	YES	Projects (PTL)
	Testing of each of the features	YES	Projects (PTL)
	Release tagging (release branching)	YES*	Projects (PTL)	Except for o-du-phy.
	Publishing of Artifacts	YES	Projects (PTL)
Documentation	Developer documentation for the features (if any)	YES	Projects (PTL)
	User documentation for the features (if any)	YES	Projects (PTL)
	Release notes documentation	YES	Projects (PTL)
	Documentation update in Wiki	YES	PM	Landing Page should be updated with K-Release
	Documentation update in website	YES	Marketing	https://o-ran-sc.org/ https://www.linuxfoundation.org/projects
	Branch doc project	YES	Docs Project (PTL)
License	License Scanning (Paid Service)	YES	PM	Results shared.
	Resolution of issues (if any) with license Scanning	YES	Projects (PTL)	NA
	Dependency Scanning (nexus)	YES	Projects (PTL)	NA
	Resolution of issues (if any) with dependency scanning	YES	Projects (PTL)	NA
Security	Nexus and SonarCube	YES	PM
	Resolution of issues (if any) with Security Scanning	YES	Projects (PTL)	At least the critical ones. Need better security compliance going ahead.

J-Release

Category	Checkpoint	Status: Yes/No/NA	Who	Comment / Evidence / How-To?
Operations	TOC Voting on the release approval.	YES	TOC	27th June 2024
	Article on Release	NO	Marketing Team	@sally cooper
Development	Completion of the committed features	YES	Projects (PTL)	Check this Link: J Release Completed: All projects have documented the highlights.
	Moving the features that were not completed to next release (if any)	YES	Projects (PTL)
	Testing of each of the features	YES	Projects (PTL)
	Release tagging (release branching)	YES	Projects (PTL)
	Publishing of Artifacts	YES	Projects (PTL)
Documentation	Developer documentation for the features (if any)	YES	Projects (PTL)	Need confirmation from PTLs
	User documentation for the features (if any)	YES	Projects (PTL)	Need Confirmation from PTLs.
	Release notes documentation	NO	Projects (PTL)	Few projects are missing this
	Release documentation for Blog/Article on Release (if reqd.)	No	Marketing	@sally cooper
	Documentation update in Wiki	YES*	Marketing	* : This will be modified by LF Creative services team soon. @Sally cooper
	Documentation update in website	YES*	Marketing	https://o-ran-sc.org/ https://www.linuxfoundation.org/projects
	Branch doc project	YES	Docs Project (PTL)
License	License Scanning (Paid Service)	YES	PM
	Resolution of issues (if any) with license Scanning	YES	Projects (PTL)
	Dependency Scanning (nexus)	YES	Projects (PTL)
	Resolution of issues (if any) with dependency scanning	YES	Projects (PTL)
Security	LFX Security Scanning	NA	RM	Security Check Dashboard
	Resolution of issues (if any) with Security Scanning	NA	Projects (PTL)	At least the critical ones.

I-Release

Category	Checkpoint	Status: Yes/No/NA	Who	Comment / Evidence / How-To?
Operations	TOC Voting on the release approval.	YES	TOC	TOC Meeting - 14-December-2023
	Article on Release	No	Marketing Team
Development	Completion of the committed features	YES	Projects (PTL)	Check this Link: I Release Completed: NONRTRIC, RICPLT, ODUHIGH, INF, AIMLFW : Partial
	Moving the features that were not completed to next release (if any)	YES	Projects (PTL)
	Testing of each of the features	YES	Projects (PTL)
	Release tagging (release branching)	YES	Projects (PTL)
	Publishing of Artifacts	YES	Projects (PTL)
Documentation	Developer documentation for the features (if any)	NA	Projects (PTL)	Need confirmation from PTLs
	User documentation for the features (if any)	NA	Projects (PTL)	Need Confirmation from PTLs.
	Release notes documentation	YES	Projects (PTL)	Still missing.
	Release documentation for Blog/Article on Release (if reqd.)	No	Marketing
	Documentation update in Wiki	YES	PM	https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/display/ORAN Releases
	Documentation update in website	YES	PM	https://o-ran-sc.org/ https://www.linuxfoundation.org/projects
	Branch doc project	YES	Docs Project (PTL)
License	License Scanning (Paid Service)	YES	PM	Done on 1st week of December.
	Resolution of issues (if any) with license Scanning	YES	Projects (PTL)
	Dependency Scanning (nexus)	YES	Projects (PTL)
	Resolution of issues (if any) with dependency scanning	YES	Projects (PTL)
Security	LFX Security Scanning	YES	RM	Security Check Dashboard
	Resolution of issues (if any) with Security Scanning	NA	Projects (PTL)	At least the critical ones.

H-Release

Category	Checkpoint	Yes/No	Who	Comment / Evidence / How-To?
Operations	TSC Voting on the release approval.	Yes	TSC	TSC Meeting.
	Article on Release	No	Marketing Team
Development	Completion of the committed features	Yes	Projects (PTL)
	Moving the features that were not completed to next release (if any)	Yes	Projects (PTL)
	Testing of each of the features	Yes	Projects (PTL)
	Release tagging (release branching)	Yes*	Projects (PTL)	oransc-NO-hreleasebranch.txt
	Publishing of Artifacts	Yes	Projects (PTL)	O-RAN-SC-Artifacts-Staging.xlsx O-RAN-SC-Artifacts.xlsx
Documentation	Developer documentation for the features (if any)	Yes	Projects (PTL)
	User documentation for the features (if any)	Yes	Projects (PTL)
	Release notes documentation	Yes	Projects (PTL)
	Release documentation for Blog/Article on Release (if reqd.)	NA	Marketing
	Documentation update in Wiki	Yes	PM	https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/display/ORAN Releases
	Documentation update in website	Yes	PM	https://o-ran-sc.org/ https://www.linuxfoundation.org/projects
	Branch doc project	Yes	Docs Project (PTL)
License	License Scanning (Paid Service)	Yes	PM
	Resolution of issues (if any) with license Scanning	Yes	Projects (PTL)
	Dependency Scanning (nexus)	NA	Projects (PTL)
	Resolution of issues (if any) with dependency scanning	NA	Projects (PTL)
Security	LFX Security Scanning	Yes	RM	Security Check Dashboard
	Resolution of issues (if any) with Security Scanning	Yes	Projects (PTL)