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+.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
+.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
+
+
+This document provides the release notes for <RELEASE> of <COMPONENT>.
+
+.. contents::
+   :depth: 3
+   :local:
+
+
+Version history
+---------------
+
++--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
+| **Date**           | **Ver.**           | **Author**         | **Comment**        |
+|                    |                    |                    |                    |
++--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
+| 2017-03-14         | TODO(yujunz): tag  | Yujun Zhang        | First draft        |
+|                    |                    |                    |                    |
++--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
+
+Important notes
+===============
+
+QTIP is totally reworked in Danube release. The legacy benchmarks released in Brahmaputra (compute, network and storage)
+are deprecated.
+
+Summary
+=======
+
+QTIP Danube release introduces **QPI**, a.k.a. QTIP Performance Index, which is calculated from metrics collected in
+performance tests.
+
+A PoC of compute qpi benchmark plan is provided as a sample use case.
+
+Available benchmark plans can be listed, shown and executed from `qtip-cli`, the command line interpreter of QTIP.
+
+Release Data
+============
+
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| **Project**                          | QTIP                                 |
+|                                      |                                      |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| **Repo/commit-ID**                   | qtip/TBD                             |
+|                                      |                                      |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| **Release designation**              | Danube 1.0                           |
+|                                      |                                      |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| **Release date**                     | TODO(yujunz): fill date              |
+|                                      |                                      |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| **Purpose of the delivery**          | OPNFV quality assurance              |
+|                                      |                                      |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+
+Version change
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Module version changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+N/A
+
+Document version changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+N/A
+
+Reason for version
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Feature additions
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+**JIRA BACK-LOG:**
+
+** TODO(yujunz) pull data from JIRA **
+
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| **JIRA REFERENCE**                   | **SLOGAN**                           |
+|                                      |                                      |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+|                                      |                                      |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+|                                      |                                      |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+
+Bug corrections
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+**JIRA TICKETS:**
+
+** TODO(yujunz) pull data from JIRA **
+
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| **JIRA REFERENCE**                   | **SLOGAN**                           |
+|                                      |                                      |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+|                                      |                                      |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+|                                      |                                      |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+
+Deliverables
+------------
+
+Software deliverables
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+** TODO(yujunz) docker image, pip package **
+
+Documentation deliverables
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+** TODO(yujunz) links to qtip document publish **
+
+Known Limitations, Issues and Workarounds
+=========================================
+
+System Limitations
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+None
+
+Known issues
+^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+** TODO(yujunz) pull data from JIRA **
+
+**JIRA TICKETS:**
+
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| **JIRA REFERENCE**                   | **SLOGAN**                           |
+|                                      |                                      |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+|                                      |                                      |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+|                                      |                                      |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+
+Workarounds
+^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+N/A
+
+Test Result
+===========
+
+QTIP has undergone QA test runs with the following results:
+
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| **TEST-SUITES**                      | **Results:**                         |
+|                                      |                                      |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| qtip-verify-danube                   | 72/72 passed                         |
+|                                      |                                      |
+|                                      | 73% lines of code covered            |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| qtip-daily-fuel-zte-pod3-danube      | Last 7 build fails                   |
+|                                      |                                      |
+|                                      | blocked by the failure of zte-pod3   |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+
+References
+==========
+
+For more information on the OPNFV Danube release, please see:
+
+http://opnfv.org/danube