oVirt 3.6 Release Management

Key Milestones

| Date | Milestone | |—|—| | 2014-10-17 | oVirt 3.5.0 GA Releases | | 2014-10-22 | Release criteria discussion start | | 2014-11-12
2014-11-19
2014-11-26 | Release criteria ready | | 2015-04-22 | Feature Review - Feature Submission Closed | | 2015-05-06

2015-05-19 | Alpha Release: oVirt 3.6 Release Notes | | 2015-05-12

| Alpha Release Test Day | | 2015-06-15 | Feature freeze | | 2015-06-17

2015-06-29 | Second Alpha Release: oVirt 3.6 Release Notes | | 2015-07-28 | Third Alpha Release: oVirt 3.6 Release Notes | | 2015-07-15 2015-08-03 | Beta Release | | 2015-07-20 2015-08-10 | Beta Release Test Day | | 2015-08-11 2015-08-14 | Second Beta Release | | 2015-08-03 2015-08-19 | String Freeze | | 2015-08-20 | Third Beta Release | | 2015-09-02 2015-09-07 | Fourth Beta Release | | 2015-09-09 | Fifth Beta Release | | 2015-09-16 | Sixth Beta Release | | 2015-08-19

2015-09-28 | Release Candidate | | 2015-08-24

| Release Candidate Test Day | | 2015-10-14 | Second Release Candidate | | 2015-10-21 | Third Release Candidate | | 2015-09-08

2015-11-04 | Release |

NOTE this is a tentative planning according to Release process

External Project Schedules

Links to other significant project schedules, useful for seeing how oVirt aligns with them.

• Debian Jessie 8.2: 2015-09-05
• Fedora 24: 2016-05-17
• Fedora 23: 2015-10-27
• Fedora 22 End Of Life: 2016-06-17 (1 month after Fedora 24 release)
• Fedora 21 End Of Life: 2015-11-27 (1 month after Fedora 23 release)
• Foreman 1.8.4: 2015-09-15
• Foreman 1.9.2: 2015-10-13
• Foreman 1.10.0: 2015-11-01
• Foreman 1.11.0: 2016-02-01
• GlusterFS 3.7: 2015-05-06
• GlusterFS 4.0: No date yet
• OpenStack Kilo: 2015-04-30
• OpenStack Liberty: 2015-10-15
• QEMU 2.5.0: 2015-12-10
• Tiny Core 6.4: 2015-09-08

oVirt Live

oVirt Live has been rebased on EL7.

Translation Status

Translations are handled by Zanata. You can join the translators team and see current translation status here: https://translate.zanata.org/zanata/iteration/view/ovirt/master/languages

Key Proposed Changes

The following list is a subset of the features proposed for oVirt 3.6

• Features/Management Network As A Role
• Features/DetailedHostNetworkingApi
• Features/HostNetworkingApi
• Features/IsolatedNetworks
• Features/Cluster parameters override
• Drop support for Fedora <= 20
• Add support for Fedora 22
• Add support for Ubuntu hosts
• No support for new features on el6. el6 hosts would be allowed only in 3.5 compatibility mode.
• Hosted Engine support only on hosts supporting 3.6 compatibility level (EL7 and Fedora). A guide will be provided for migrating from EL6

Tracker Bug

• • Tracker: oVirt 3.6 release

Release Criteria

Alpha Release Criteria

1. MUST: All sources must be available on ovirt.org
2. MUST: All packages listed by subprojects must be available in the repository

Beta Release Criteria

1. MUST: Release Notes have feature-specific information: oVirt 3.6 Release Notes
2. MUST: Alpha Release Criteria are met
3. MUST: Supported localizations must be at least at 70% of completeness for being included in the release
4. MUST: All accepted features must be substantially complete and in a testable state and enabled by default – if so specified by the change

Candidate Release Criteria

1. MUST: Beta Release Criteria are met
2. MUST: All test cases defined for each accepted feature must be verified and pass the test for the build to be released
3. MUST: All lower-level components must be available on supported distributions at required version [1]
4. MUST: No known regressions from previous releases should be present
5. MUST: Each subproject must allow upgrade from a previous version, either providing documented manuals or automated upgrade procedures
6. MUST: All features working on previous release must still work in the new release if not dropped as deprecated

[1] This means we’re not hosting any package we don’t develop inside oVirt repository just because it’s not yet released officially.