July 2021 International Edition Release Schedule - INTERNAL

Date	Responsibility	Deliverables

Date	Responsibility	Deliverables
Nov 25, 2020	@Maria Braithwaite	Authoring begins for the July 2021 International Edition editing cycle.
Mar 15, 2021	@Jane Millar	Cut off for external collaboration partner CRS Requests (IHE, HL7, etc) - set date of 15th March + 15th September each cycle for clarity.
Mar 16, 2021	@Yongsheng Gao	NO FURTHER MRCM CHANGES ACCEPTED - everyone has agreed this, with the caveat that any critical changes can be reviewed by all of us in order to analyse impact vs business case and allow a change if absolutely necessary. The final state of all MRCM resets will then automatically be included in both authoring validation + release.
Apr 5, 2021	@Maria Braithwaite	NO FURTHER CRS REQUESTS ACCEPTED https://www.snomed.org/snomed-ct/Use-SNOMED-CT/change-or-add
May 4, 2021	@Maria Braithwaite	NO FURTHER BATCH LOADS OR BULK UPDATES. NO FURTHER PROMOTION FOR PROJECTS THAT HAVE LARGE SCALE CHANGES - For example this would include large scale changes to foundational hierarchies such as anatomy or substances, or changes that are likely to have impact to reports such as the pattern report (e.g. redundant relationships) or MRCM (e.g. cardinality).
May 11, 2021	@Maria Braithwaite	Last day for authors to launch new tasks in SCA - no more new tasks launched after this date. Verify all new namespace concepts have been added. Verify all new metadata concepts have been added (for new freesets or refsets). Check with @Jane Millar and @Suzy Roy if any new derivative products are scheduled post release that will require a new concept for refsetID + moduleID. Early Visibility Handover meeting (if complexity of Release requires).
May 11, 2021	@Andrew Atkinson	Pre-close of release full validation of the initial exported content.
May 12, 2021	@Maria Braithwaite	Content team review, rebase and finalise all content for July 2021 release.
May 13, 2021	@Maria Braithwaite	Content team promote to MAIN final content for all projects for the July 2021 release.
May 14, 2021	@Maria Braithwaite	Content Release Lead to request (via Infra ticket) formal lock down of all Projects (i.e. no promotions allowed), except for the Internal QA Project (INTQA) - which needs to remain open until from CONTENT CUTOFF DATE in order to allow Content Release Lead to promote all final QA fixes before handover.
May 14, 2021	@Maria Braithwaite @Farzaneh Ashrafi + @Suzanne Santamaria	Final content review (2 days). Request vet extension report. Request QI project content changes report. Review of new observable entity and evaluation procedure concepts for conflicts with the LOINC agreement.
May 18, 2021	@Maria Braithwaite	CONTENT CUTOFF DATE (12:00 UTC), + Handover of content to technical team Release manager Content Release Lead to request (via Infra ticket) the maintenance screen to be raised in Production, to prevent further updates to International content - Technical Team Release tasks - July 2021 Reminder to WCI to cut off mapping drip feed (but NOT clone over to Release Server until Mapping Team confirms that both ICD-0/ICD-10 + GMDN maps are all updated based on 8th Content + latest GMDN content.
May 18, 2021	@Andrew Atkinson / @Maria Braithwaite	Planned Initial Handover meeting.
May 18, 2021	@Donna Morgan	Mapping Team to notify WCI mapping/review ready for QA. QA of mapping (Mapping Team + WCI).
May 19, 2021	@Terance Shird	termServer branching and Release versioning - Technical Team Release tasks - July 2021
May 20, 2021	@Andrew Atkinson	Full validation of the initial exported content.
May 20, 2021	@Yongsheng Gao	Content Team to confirm that Lateralizable refset is complete in Production refset tool (Release manager to then action the refset tool release to get the delta files). Content Team to deliver the SEP refsets (x2) to Release manager.
May 21, 2021	@Andrew Atkinson @Donna Morgan @Maria Braithwaite	Mapping/Review/Technical QA complete Authors and mappers - Preparation of release notes content
May 21, 2021	@Donna Morgan	MAPPING CUTOFF DATE (12:00 UTC), + Mapping team to request Clone of Mapping content (both ICD-0/ICD-10 + GMDN) over to the Release Server, in order to provide a stable baseline for both upcoming International + GMDN releases. Handover of ICD-0 + ICD-10 maps to technical team Release manager (@Andrew Atkinson)
May 24, 2021	@Andrew Atkinson	Planned Final Handover meeting, + PLANNED Early Alpha Release date (Internal only plus possibly Australia). Provisional date for Content authoring starts for next editing cycle.
May 25, 2021	@Maria Braithwaite	Handover of Release Notes to technical team Release manager (note: recheck final figures for concepts changes/ additions etc before member release and public release to take into account changes made after close of editing.
Jun 9, 2021	@Andrew Atkinson	PLANNED BETA Release date. Restart the mapping Drip Feed - this can actually be done earlier than the final Beta if required, as the only pre-requisite is to complete the ICD-0/ICD-10 testing in the Beta build. This is simply to provide confidence that there will not likely be map changes during the Beta stage, which could in theory create re-work for the teams. This risk should be balanced against the growing backlog of map changes, and a decision made whether to use an early Beta build to switch the drip feed back on.
Jun 16, 2021	@Andrew Atkinson	PLANNED BETA feedback deadline. Last day for addition of COVID-19 related vaccine concepts (critical content only).
Jun 30, 2021	@Andrew Atkinson	Member Release date.
Jul 31, 2021	@Andrew Atkinson	PRODUCTION Public Release date.