04. Milestones

A milestone is a progress marker for a project. They allow the manager(s) to accurately gauge the progress and help make decisions about scheduling and feature inclusion/removal.

Each newly created project has two default milestones: "Final Release" and "Someday/Maybe."

Final Release is the default milestone for you to get started with. The proposed release date used to create the project is the default Final Release milestone target date.

Someday/Maybe is a milestone for items that will not be immediately worked on. Items in this milestone will not appear on a homepage or in time estimates.

Lifecycle

• When a milestone is added to a project, its status is '''OPEN'''. As long as any of the items assigned to the milestone are not '''VERIFIED''', the milestone will remain '''OPEN'''.
• Whenever the status of an item is changed, its milestone is re-evaluated. If it no longer has any unverified items, the milestone will become '''CLOSED'''.
• If a new (and OPEN) item is added to a '''CLOSED''' milestone or an item on the '''CLOSED''' milestone is reopened, the milestone will also become reopened.
• All overdue milestones appear on user's Dashboard page. They will remain there until all the milestones are closed, or their target dates modified.

Image:Milestone-lifecycle.png

Create/Edit a milestone

To create a new milestone, click "''Milestones''" tab on the Project's page, and then ''Add new milestone''.

All fields in this form can be changed later in editing mode.

; Name : Milestone name

; Target date : The default date is the day of creation. Change it according to your project's plan.

You can edit a milestone or add a description from each milestone's page.