Release Management in Free Software Projects: Practices and Problems
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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 di culty of coordinating a distributed team of volunteers in order to align their work for a release.
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