| Date | Deliverable | Owner | Comment |
| M - 18 |
| | Solicit initial COO Update (features, contributors) | Release Manager/Team Leads | |
| M - 11 |
| | Send final COO Update request | Team Leads | |
| | Generate License Updates | Project Manager | |
| M - 4 |
| | Manual tests documented on the development web of the wiki | Team Leads | |
| | Function freeze (midnight); All function delivered, unit tested and documentation updated. (no changes that break others, such as; project renames, API changes, API contract breaks | All | |
| | Send COO Update for Executive approval | Release Manager | |
| M - 3 |
| | Code freeze (midnight), Only build breaking defects go into trunk, other fixes (such as code hygiene changes) not allowed | All | |
| | verify available archive space | Infrastructure Lead | |
| M - 2 |
| | Branch M2 in SVN (6:00 AM Eastern) | Build Lead | |
| | milestone build scripts | Build Lead | |
| | Assign Manual test to developers | Lead Engineer | |
| | Begin Testing | All | |
| M - 1 |
| | Test | All |
| | Document milestone new feature highlights | Team Leads | |
| | Create directories for M2 downloads on gpfs | Build Lead? | Added by Jeff |
| | setup license click-through files in CLI download directories | Infrastructure Lead | Added by Jeff |
| M |
| | Final build at Noon | Build Lead | |
| | Create Document web for milestone | Infrastructure Lead | |
| | Deliver Final build to projectzero.org. | Infrastructure Lead | |
| | blog/forum/wiki/spotlight announcements | Lead Engineer | |
| | downloads counter script updates | Infrastructure Lead | |
| M+3 |
| | Update wiki Download page to include M2 | User Experience Lead | |
| | Update JavaDoc links to milestone | Build Lead | |
| | Create next milestone wiki page | Release Manager | |
| M+5 |
| | Confirm milestone bugs have been verified or moved to M3 | Release Manager | |
| | Clean up milestone branches | All | |
| | Lessons Learned | Release Manager | |