This page will describe the basic process for managing feature inclusion within a release, and the associated versioning strategy.

Features

Features proposed for inclusion in a release may be categorized as follows:

• User driven
  • Users refers specifically to WMDA member registries (or their delegates) that currently use or intend to use the Match-Connect apis
  • During the early design and implementation phases of Match-Connect, features will be proposed by the Match-Connect Steering Committee and participating pilot registries
  • Following the pilot phase, all user driven features will be requested via RFC
• Implementation team driven
  • Implementation team refers to the technical staff of the WMDA and their associates that are directly involved in the implementation of the Match-Connect apis
  • The implementation team may need to include items in a release to resolve defects, improve underlying design, update dependencies / libraries and to keep the software in good, working order

Process

Whether user driven or implementation team driven, any inclusions will be logged / summarized in the WMDA Share under the Match-Connect Release Management page.