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Review and release

This is the second half of the change lifecycle — from an in-review ECO to a tagged release.

Reviewing an ECO

  1. Open the ECO list. Left nav → ECOs. Filter to In review to find the ones waiting on you.

    ECO list

  2. Click an ECO. The detail page shows the description, the parts changed, and a side-by-side diff of every modified YAML file. Comments live below.

    ECO review screen

  3. Vote.

    • Approve — your vote is recorded; if the ECO has now met quorum, it transitions to approved.
    • Request changes — leaves the ECO in review with a blocking comment. The author can address and re-request your review.
    • Comment — non-blocking observation.

  4. Merge. Once approved, the dashboard offers a Merge to main button. This rebases or fast-forwards the ECO branch into main. The ECO transitions to released the moment its commits are in main’s history.

Cutting a release

A released ECO is not the same as a release — releases bundle one or more ECOs into an immutable named snapshot.

  1. Open the Releases tab. Left nav → Releases.

    Releases timeline

  2. Click “New release”, then:

    • Tag — your release name (e.g. v1.2.0).
    • Description — release notes.
    • Included ECOs — auto-populated with every released ECO since the last release; you can edit.

  3. Create. simple-plm cuts a Git tag on the head of main, writes a plm-data/releases/<tag>.yaml manifest, and pins all referenced attachments by content hash. The release is now immutable.

Audit

Every transition (vote cast, merge, release cut) is recorded in the org’s activity log — see plm activity or the Activity tab in the dashboard.