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FreeBSD and release engineeringFreeBSD and release engineeringPosted Feb 11, 2012 21:38 UTC (Sat) by landley (guest, #6789)Parent article: FreeBSD and release engineering
I collected some useful videos on http://kernel.org/doc and one of them, "release management for large free software projects", is _excellent_ and directly applicable here.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5503858974016723264
ABSTRACT: Time based releases are made according to a specific time interval, instead of making a release when a particular functionality or set of features have been implemented. This talk argues that time based release management acts as an effective coordination mechanism in large volunteer projects and shows examples from seven projects that have moved to time based releases: Debian, GCC, GNOME, Linux, OpenOffice, Plone, and X.org.
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FreeBSD and release engineering Posted Feb 11, 2012 21:41 UTC (Sat) by landley (guest, #6789) [Link]
Oh, I wrote up another facet of the same thing in the BusyBox FAQ once upon a time:
http://busybox.net/FAQ.html#backporting
The topic's one I consider important to understand and get right, if you do open source...
Rob
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