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What is your strategy for converting RC builds into retail?
We're trying to implement a strategy for how we transition our builds from RC to released retail code.
When we label a build as a release candidate, we send it to QA for regression. If they approve ...
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How can I advocate a semi-strict release schedule in a risk-averse environment?
Recently I've been increasingly plagued by what I would have to describe as one of my most frustrating and morale-killing experiences in this profession: Having to sit on a release that has been ...
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centralized hosted application framework or “private copies” for each program?
We have a centralised business application framework, and it contains all our business logic and provides access to all our back-end systems. It is accessed by a number of different programs and ...
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Should the build drive your tags or should the tags drive the build?
Our current method of creating a product release is to tag all of our component repositories with the next appropriate version and then modify a master build script with these new version numbers for ...
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How detailed should public release notes be?
When releasing a software update, how detailed should the notes be? Specifically, how detailed should bug fixes be?
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What is Mozilla's new release management strategy?
I saw today that FireFox released a new version (5). I tried reading about what was added and ran into this link: ...
