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Why OpenBSD’s Release Process Works

---> Posted by BSD Blog @ July 26, 2009 at 8:43 pm
---> In category: General News
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An anonymous reader writes “Twelve years ago OpenBSD developers started engineering a release process that has resulted in quality software being delivered on a consistent 6 month schedule — 25 times in a row, exactly on the date promised, and with no critical bugs. This on-time delivery process is very different from how corporations manage their product releases and much more in tune with how volunteer driven communities are supposed to function. Theo de Raadt explains in this presentation how the OpenBSD release process is managed (video) and why it has been such a success.”

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Hello,

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mglad

---> Comment by mglad — August 19, 2009 @ 3:05 am

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