I'm not sure why it's not possible to have features in release templates.
Phases and milestones are nice, but features are what actually have the status.
This would be especially powerful for recurring releases.
For example, I'm manually creating a release each month for our monthly webinar. Each of these releases contain 12 features.
I'd love to make a release template for this to save myself the time of manually creating 12 features per release.
I thought of transitioning some/all of these features into phases/milestones, however, this doesn't translate well because phases/milestones have no status.
We would like to be able to template features/activities into release/schedule templates. We use Aha Features as major sub-projects that contribute to a release and this would be really helpful.
Thank you for your idea. We would recommend creating a parking lot that acts as your template. Then when creating a new release, you can choose to copy an existing release and select the "template" release. This article describes in more detail. Given the current option and other priorities, we are unlikely to implement this idea at this time. We hope you can understand.