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Release management is about organising the content of successive versions of the software that are distributed.

Release management is about organising the content of successive versions of the software that are distributed.

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Is it unusual for a small company (15 developers) not to use managed source/version control?

It's not really a technical question, but there are several other questions here about source control and best practice. The company I work for (which will remain anonymous) uses a network share to host its source code and released code. It's the…
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Is there a way to combat Sales perpetually overcommitting?

I seem to be repeatedly stuck in a situation where release dates are set not based on anything technical, but because someone in Sales has committed to a customer by then. Based on discussions with friends in development at other companies, the…
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Semantic versioning for desktop applications

I can easily follow the Semantic Versioning recommendations if I develop a library or API, but what if the developed product is a website or a desktop application? When would you increment a major component in that case? In case of a complete UI…
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How do you put different versions of your library under version control? Do you use tags? Or branches? Or another method?

I have recently started putting my code under version control (in the lab I'm working, under SVN, and my own codes in github (obviously with git)). Before using version control, I used to do something like this. I had a folder with the name of the…
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Is it good practice to store software version numbers in VCS?

A product version, such as v1.0.0.100, represents not only a unique production release of software, but helps identify feature sets and hotfix stages for said product. Right now I see two ways to maintain the final package/build/binary version of a…
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How do you update live web sites with code changes?

I know this is a very basic question. If someone could humor me and tell me how they would handle this, I'd be greatful. I decided to post this because I am about to install SynchToy to remedy the issue below, and I feel a bit unprofessional using…
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Should testers approve releases, or just report on tests?

Does it make sense to give signoff authority to testers? Should a test team Just test features, issues, etc, and simply report on a pass/fail basis, leaving it up to others to act on those results, or Have authority to hold up releases themselves…
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Why popular repositories use release version as a "Release title" in GitHub?

What is the reason to use release version as a release title on GitHub? It looks like this And it looks like a common practise. Almost all popular repositories use it. What is the use case to duplicate release tag to the release…
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How to do efficient code review during release fever?

The deadline for a release is tomorrow, your collegue finally finished his task that's crucial for this release, project manager is standing over your shoulder and presses you to finally make a build and you notice a flaw in your collegue's code…
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Semantic versioning when fixing an important bug

I currently manage a library which has a lot of public usage, and I had a question about semantic versioning. I want to refactor one fairly important part of the library which is implemented incorrectly - and has always been implemented incorrectly.…
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What is a non-merge commit?

In the announcement of Linux 5.15-rc1 Linus said: At only just over 10k non-merge commits, this is in fact the smallest rc1 we have had in the 5.x series. What is a non-merge commit? What's the opposite of a non-merge commit?
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package and version strategies in a multi repository environment

We are a small-ish firm with multiple teams who manage their own git repositories. This is a web platform and each team's artifacts are deployed at the end of the day for nightly tests. We are trying to formalise the process around versioning and…
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How do you handle versioning in a multi-sided project?

I know it's a broad question so I'll try to be as specific as possible. This question is more an "organisational" question than a technical one. We have a multi-sided project with these main components: A server, hosting the core business logic…
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What is a realistic way to handle customer-specific software patches?

I'm trying to gather effective ways that others have solved the following problem. At work we've been forced to release a software patch (to be installed on end-user systems) that we only want visible to a specific customer. The custom code is in…
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How do you keep released binaries under version control?

How do you keep released binaries under version control? This allows to track which stuffs are changed between each release. I mean to separate the released binaries from source repository. The released binaries are either built from Continuous…
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