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Beta release on demo site
Beta release is announced
First draft of documentation is done
First round of testing is doneand bug reporting begins
Institutions have a chance to report bugs or ask for a PR to be considered for inclusion in release
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RC goes to demo site
RC is announced
Finalize feature documentation by end of phase
Finalize testing document by end of phase
Distributed Testing testing of all features and report bugs (includes accessibility testing), supported browsers, accessibility testing.
Report bugs
Confirm bugs (PO?) and determine priority and fix bugs (need to establish process for this)
Fix all priority bugs
Repeat above with additional versions of RCx until release is confirmed stable.
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