Release Management in Free Software Projects: Practices and Problems

Abstract. Release management plays an important role in every software project since it is concerned with the delivery of a high quality product to end-users. This paper explores release practices employed by volunteer free software projects and shows problems that occur. A challenge that has been identified is the difficulty of coordinating a distributed team of volunteers in order to align their work for a release. Key words: Release management, coordination, volunteers

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: OSS
• Authors: Martin Michlmayr, Francis Hunt, David Probert
• Keywords: OSS 2007, Paper Explores Release, Release Management, Software Engineering, Software Projects