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Scope

• New features are going to be developed for a planned ReleaseHaving passed the Planning Cycle new features can be assigned a release for development.
• This article describes our the policy for handling this situation the Development Cycle and its mapping with to the states respective status in the SOS Change Management System.

Life Cycle

Features in Development development will pass through the following statesstatus:

Status
colour Yellow title IN PROGRESS

• The feature was has previously Accepted or Deferredbeen ACCEPTED or DEFERRED within the Planning Cycle.
• The development for this feature has already startedis started. The feature is assigned a develper and a release.

Status
colour Green title RESOLVED

• The development process for this the feature has finishedbeen completed.
• The resolution may include
  • the feature being ready for approval, i.e. awaiting
  A resolution has been taken, and it is awaiting
  • verification by an approver
  . 
  • (resolution: fixed).
  • the feature not being fixed (resolution: won't fix).
  • the feature duplicating an issue and being resolved with that issue (resolution: duplicate)
  • the feature requirements being incomplete (resolution: incomplete).

Status
colour Green title APPROVED

• Feature The feature has been confirmed to work by an approver and the feature is ready for release.
• The feature will be included in with the next assigned release.

Status
colour Green title RELEASED

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