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Program Management for Open Source Projects
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Program Management for Open Source Projects

by Ben Cotton
July 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
192 pages
5h 27m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Set Release Criteria

Problem: You don’t know when the release is ready to ship.

If you’re waiting until all of the (known) bugs are fixed before you ship the release, you’re going to need a very comfortable chair. The only way to produce meaningful software without any (known) bugs is to avoid testing. Since that seems like a recipe for disaster, we have to come up with another approach. Let’s figure out which bugs are acceptable and which aren’t.

We can start by turning to our bug tracker and looking at all of the bugs in the prerelease version. For each one, we ask ourselves “is it okay to ship the release with this bug?” This involves a few difficulties. First, debating each bug will take a long time. Not everyone will agree on whether the ...

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