TC,

The issue of release management came up in the OLE Steering Committee this morning, and I wanted to pass it along as an item for us.

Not having a stable release environment is blocking ERM. Ian Ibbotson brought this to Mike and Kristin. Ian will characterize the blockage and send something to the TC.
There is a sense of urgency around getting stable releases, and that the ERM group believes they cannot really assign work to devs without stable releases.

I was asked where the TC is on release management. It's not a specific item on our backlog, though it seems closely related to QA issues that Anton has already identified, plus several other items on the backlog. It seems no one was aware of the Q2-2018 release that Wayne put together, though I also think more regular, buildable releases are closer to what will be needed.

So it seems release management is coming to us as a new item for the backlog, it will be better defined by Ian, and there is a sense of urgency.

-Tod