Mobile/Focus/iOS/Train Schedule

Background

Focus for iOS will be moving to a bi-weekly cadence, so our releases will be schedule driven rather than dictated by feature development progress. Both features and fixes will be allocated to the next available release upon completion. This will give us the ability to respond much more quickly to bug reports and user feedback.

While the release cadence will remain the same, the release numbering in this schedule is subject to change, as whether a release is classified as an X.0 depends on the significance of the features/enhancements being shipped.

As a further benefit, the process will be simpler and more predictable for the multiple teams involved, as all key milestones will recur on a bi-weekly basis as well. Also, the volume of work to test, translate, review etc... will be smaller for each release, allowing us to move much more quickly.

Train Schedule - 2017

Version	Sprint Start	String Freeze/L10N Hand-off	Feature Complete	QA hand-off	QA & L10N App Sign-off	Legal Sign-off	Submission	App Store Content Sign-off	Release	Release Themes
3.4	July 17, 2017	July 20, 2017	July 28,2017	July 28, 2017	Aug 1, 2017	Aug 1, 2017	July 28, 2017	N/A	Aug 1-2, 2017	Bug fixes, Paste & Go
3.5	July 31, 2017	Aug 3, 2017	Aug 11, 2017	Aug 11, 2017	Aug 17, 2017	Aug 17, 2017	Aug 18, 2017	Aug 23, 2017	Aug 24, 2017	TBC
4.0	Aug 14, 2017	Aug 17, 2017	Aug 25, 2017	Aug 25, 2017	Aug 31, 2017	Aug 31, 2017	Sept 1, 2017	Sept 6, 2017	Sept 7, 2017	TBC
4.2	Aug 28, 2017	Aug 31, 2017	Sept 8, 2017	Sept 8, 2017	Sept 14, 2017	Sept 14, 2017	Sept 15, 2017	Sept 20, 2017	Sept 21, 2017	TBC
5.0	Sept 11, 2017	Sept 14, 2017	Sept 22, 2017	Sept 22, 2017	Sept 28, 2017	Sept 28, 2017	Sept 29, 2017	Oct 4, 2017	Oct 5, 2017	TBC
5.1	Sept 25, 2017	Sept 28, 2017	Oct 6, 2017	Oct 6, 2017	Oct 12, 2017	Oct 12, 2017	Oct 13, 2017	Oct 18, 2017	Oct 19, 2017	TBC
5.2	Oct 9, 2017	Oct 12, 2017	Oct 20, 2017	Oct 20, 2017	Oct 26, 2017	Oct 26, 2017	Oct 27, 2017	Nov 1, 2017	Nov 2, 2017	TBC
6.0	Oct 23, 2017	Oct 26, 2017	Nov 3, 2017	Nov 3, 2017	Nov 9, 2017	Nov 9, 2017	Nov 10, 2017	Nov 15, 2017	Nov 16, 2017	TBC
6.1	Nov 6, 2017	Nov 9, 2017	Nov 17, 2017	Nov 17, 2017	Nov 23, 2017	Nov 23, 2017	Nov 24, 2017	Nov 29, 2017	Nov 30, 2017	TBC
6.2	Nov 20, 2017	Nov 23, 2017	Dec 1, 2017	Dec 1, 2017	Dec 7, 2017	Dec 7, 2017	Dec 8, 2017	Dec 13, 2017	Dec 14, 2017	TBC
7.0	Dec 4, 2017	Dec 7, 2017	Dec 15, 2017	Dec 15, 2017	Dec 21, 2017	Dec 21, 2017	Dec 22, 2017	TBC	TBC	TBC

Legend of Milestones

• Sprint Start - Development work kicks off based on priorities identified, and commitments made in the last planning meeting, and continues for a period of two weeks.
• String Freeze/L10N Hand-off - All in-app strings for the release have been finalized, landed and vetted by UX/Content Strategy. Engineering generates a string export and provides to L10N by end of day.
• Feature Complete - Essentially code freeze. All development work on features, and identified bugs is complete as per previously identified priorities/commitments. The only code that should land after this point would be fixes to any issues identified as blockers by QA during their final test run.
• QA hand-off - A first/potential candidate build is created by Engineering, and passed to QA for final Acceptance Testing. (This is required/performed in addition to the ongoing feature testing which takes place throughout the development cycle, as particular items land.)
• QA Sign-off - Automated testing, as well as manual feature testing have been completed at a level determined to be sufficient for the release by QA. Any issues identified during acceptance testing, which were deemed to be blockers have been resolved, and the fixes verified by QA.
• L10N App Sign-off -
• Legal Sign-off -
• Submission -
• App Store Content Sign-off -
• Release -