Questions tagged [release-cycle]
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What is the difference between Spring's GA, RC and M2 releases?
Spring's 3.0 version is now GA release, before that they have launched 3.0 RC1, RC2 version Also, there was Spring 3.0 M2 version. What's the difference between GA, RC, M versions?
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Differences between CTP, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, RTM and Preview for Software Release?
It is quite intuitive that at least Gamma comes after Beta and Alpha.
But how about CTP, RTM and Preview releases? Which one comes first and last?
MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) is currently on Preview 5 release, but I am not sure if it is a…
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Getting software version numbers right. v1.0.0.1
I distribute software online, and always wonder if there is a proper way to better define version numbers.
Let's assume A.B.C.D in the answers. When do you increase each of the components?
Do you use any other version number tricks such as D mod 2…
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Release management - best practice
I work for a product development company.We first do internal releases,and then public release.I was wondering, how other product developing companies manage their release? How do you give release number? Tag the source control?
joe
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What are some good strategies to allow deployed applications to be hotfixable?
In an ideal world, our development processes would be perfect, resulting in regular releases that were so thoroughly tested that it would never be necessary to "hotfix" a running application.
But, unfortunately, we live in the real world, and…
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When is Scala 2.8.0 going to be released?
Or a release candidate? My google-fu fails me.
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Is it frowned upon to release your software with > 1 first commercial version number?
Is it frowned upon to release your software with a version number high than 1?
For example, some non tech-savy people might see a competitor's product with a higher version number as meaning my software is not as good.
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Java 8 : How can it precede Java 7's general adoption
I'm finding more and more news about Java 8 - however, Java 7 is just now being adopted in a lot of places. For example, at my work, we are still on Java 6, even though some of us have Java 7.
Im wondering - what is the limit on Java available…
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Recommended approach to test iOS app against beta iOS releases
It is good to be able to test apps against beta releases of iOS, but the number of beta releases Apple is pushing out seems to turn the benevolence into annoyance for me on several bases:
huge file downloads for the SDK and iOS images
having to…
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How do I encourage code sharing and limit the bug tracking overhead while maintaining flexibility in my releases?
How are you tracking changes, testing effort for bugs that impact multiple artifacts released separately?
Code sharing is good because it reduces the total number of paths through the code which means more impact for fewer changes and less bugs (or…
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Release life cycle and version numbers
I'm working on a lot of small utility scripts for users in my office, and I want to develop a release cycle/version number system to use when testing and distributing these tools to users. I'm not sure what the relationship should be between…
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What do you think about the new Debian release cycle?
I was surprised to know that Lenny already promoted to "stable" - among some of my clients there is some fear that Debian would want to compete with Ubuntu for the desktop and forget its server devotion.
"Only" 2 years between 4.0 Etch and 5.0 Lenny…
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