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Whether user driven or implementation team driven, any proposed inclusions will be logged / summarized in the WMDA Share under the Match-Connect Release Management page as part of a release candidate package. In the immediate term, the Match-Connect Release Management pageSteering Committee will assist with determination of impact and effort in order to assign features to a given release candidate. Each candidate feature will be given a disposition (Approved, Rejected, moved to RFC). Implementation actions (updating code, updating the semantics, updating swagger, etc) will be recorded on the release candidate page and tracked for completion.
The implementation team will leverage Azure Dev Ops for more detailed tracking of their software development work. The Match-Connect Product Owner will take responsibility for ensuring synchronization of feature inclusion into the detailed work items in Azure Dev Ops.
Feature Impact Categorizations
- Minor = cosmetic or wording only
- Moderate = api change
- Major = significant behavioral change
Example(s) of Candidate Features
The following snapshot is pulled from the MC v1.01 Release Candidate.
Versioning
The semantic versioning scheme will be utilized for Match-Connect releases going forward. It can be summarized as follows:
Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:
- MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes
- MINOR version when you add functionality in a backward compatible manner
- PATCH version when you make backward compatible bug fixes
Release candidates will be tagged according to this strategy both in the WMDA Share, Match-Connect Semantics and Azure Dev Ops.
Release Notes
Release notes shall be generated coincident with each release of Match-Connect. Depending upon the audience, these notes may be generated from the release candidate page(s) in WMDA Share OR directly from Azure Dev Ops.