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September 19, 2005
Software Release Cycle for OpenOffice
Stumbled into this article today over at ONLamp talking about suggestions for OpenOffice.org development and their release cycle that had some interesting points. I particularaly like these three ideas about shortening the release cycle:
- Currently we do a tonne of bug-fixing at the end of the release cycle - if this is 9 - 18 months after the feature was written it's far harder to fix the bugs well.
- Features only really get tested when people use them - QA is all very well, but really, people have to use code to find the sticky bugs. Shortening the feedback cycle really helps get things right fast.
- Community/Excitement - it's silly to have almost finished features festering for months in CVS without being released such as native widget integration which was completed over a year ago and is still not released.
Our project is much different from OpenOffice, but I think as we've shortened the release cycle for our software these ideas have certainly crossed our minds as reasons to have a shorter release cycle. Nice to see them coming up elsewhere.
Posted by mike at September 19, 2005 8:42 PM
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