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The Repository Managers Interest Group will work with the Hyrax PO to test and document features for Hyrax releases. For each release cycle, there will be at least one designated person from the Repo-Managers to facilitate the process. 

Major release process:

Beta Release: All major features are complete. 2-3 weeks

• Beta release on demo site

• Beta release is announced

• First draft of documentation is done

• First round of testing and bug reporting begins

• Institutions have a chance to report bugs or ask for a PR to be considered for inclusion in release

Release Candidate: Feature Freeze and bug fixes only. 2-3 weeks (may be unrealistic time frame?)

• RC goes to demo site

• RC is announced

• Finalize feature documentation by end of phase

• Finalize testing document by end of phase

• Distributed testing of all features, supported browsers, accessibility testing. 

• Report bugs 

• Confirm bugs (PO?) and determine priority (need to establish process for this)

• Fix all priority bugs 

• Repeat above with additional versions of RCx until release is confirmed stable.

Final Release:

• Once Final Release is ready, at least 1 in-production institutions should upgrade before wide release (This may not be doable, but would be good if there are institutions willing to do this, could rotate and plan ahead to help curb)

• Final Release is announced widely

Minor release process:

• Follows the Major release process on a much more compressed timeline.

• Upgrade demo site, retaining data. In the occasion that data needs to be wiped for whatever reason, this is fine. Mostly we want to test that data and users migrate smoothly.