- we're using monthly milestones
- at the beginning of a milestone, we triage issues from the Backlog and On Deck milestones into the new milestone
- any work done or issues fixed should be assigned to the current milestone
- at the end of the milestone, we run through the testing plan and validate the candidate release
- before releasing, we update the changelog (based on the work tracking in the milestone)
- we then ship, and iterate