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Scope

• Feature Life Cycle Management includes that planned features are subject to a Development Cycle:
  • having passed the Planning Cycle new features can be assigned a release for development.
  • after releasing within the Development Cycle a feature might be dropped from future releases within a Deprecation Cycle.
• This article describes
  • the policy for developing features. 
  • the mapping to the respective status in the Change Management System.
• Further resources for life cycle management
  • for the overall Product Life Cycle see Release Policy - Product Life Cycle Management
  • for information about release availability and maintenance see Release Policy - Platform availability and support

Life Cycle

Features in development will pass through the following status:

Status
colour Yellow title IN PROGRESS

• The issue has previously been ACCEPTED or DEFERRED within the Planning Cycle.
• The development for this feature or bug-fix is started. The issue is assigned a developer and a release.

Status
colour Green title RESOLVED

• The development process for the feature or bug-fix has been completed.
• The resolution states
  • the issue being ready for approval, i.e. awaiting verification by an approver (resolution: fixed).

Status
colour Green title APPROVED

• The issue has been confirmed to work by an approver.
• The issue will be included with the assigned releases.

Status
colour Green title RELEASED

• The feature or bug-fix is available with a release.
• This constitutes the end of the Development Cycle.
• The feature might be dropped from future releases within a Deprecation Cycle.