Questions tagged [release-management]
Release management is about organising the content of successive versions of the software that are distributed.
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How to ensure that release tags are uniformly created throughout a cohort of closely-related Git repositories?
Working as part of the release team for a sprawling open source project that uses dozens of Git repositories, I regularly run into situations where one or more of the satellite repositories are ...
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Internal Library Versioning Strategy and Release Workflow
At our company, we're planning to develop a set of libraries within a mono-repository, with the goal of maintaining a unified version across all of them. This ensures that when teams include our BOM (...
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Maintaining software for different versions of Ubuntu
I have some software intended to work on both Ubuntu 22 and Ubuntu 24, but due to differences between the distributions, it doesn't function properly on Ubuntu 24. Given this context, what is the ...
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I'm confused how to structure my pom.xml when both Parent and Child modules are being developed simultaneously
Let's say I have the following maven projects.
UtilsLibrary -- A maven project containing utils.
AppA -- A maven project that depends on UtilsLibrary.
AppB -- A maven project that depends on ...
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How Can GitFlow Work for Multi-Product Releases?
I am looking to adopt GitFlow for a multi-product repository. This repo contains multiple on-prem applications and libraries. Due to the nature of the products, releases are not frequent and we do not ...
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Branching strategy with two teams with different release cycles
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We have two teams with different release cycles. The teams work in the same solution, but don't change the same files.
We have a developer team that uses 2 week sprints and delivers after ...
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Is 'backporting fixes and creating releases' a common job role?
Context: The software development company I work for develops an application which is released with SemVer versions. Typically customers use the last 2-3 minor releases, so for an example if the ...
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How to scale a monolith's release process?
There is a back end application with a few development teams working on it. The application is a monolith. Before releasing any new features they need to be system tested on the last application's ...
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How to modify workflow to allow multiple features per release?
This question is inspired by comments on this recent question. In that question I asked about a version tagging workflow. A few commenters suggested it was a little strange that I'm tagging and ...
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Do you increment software version when updating non-functional parts of the code such as deployment scripts or README file?
Currently, my repo contains application code and what I call non-functional files, which include deployment scripts, README file, build system requirements, dependencies etc. These files are released ...
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Best practices for managing software releases with CI/CD with distributed software components running on a customer on-site machine?
I'm looking for some resources on learning how to best manage our software releases in an efficient manner, as our current method slows release schedules down.
My current team produces and administers ...
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Separating the concepts of deployment and release — benefits for enterprise apps
I was taking the PluralSight course with the title “azure-devops-continuous-delivery-release-pipelines” and it makes a big deal out of (ie spends a lot of time talking about) separating the release ...
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Best way to handle versioning between a desktop product and a cloud product when one depends on the other
Let's say that there are two products, product A and product B.
Product A is a desktop product that customers download and install locally on their machine. This product follows a typical versioning ...
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How to maintain multiple release branches simulateously (git)
This question has probably been discussed to death, but I don't feel like I have a good answer. I work at a company where customers are on different versions of our product. When a bug is found, we ...
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Releasing untested features using git flow
not quite sure how to put that into the title, because the issue is a bit specific.
Basically, we're using gitflow (slight variation of it) in our application. So, this means we have the following ...
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