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My company is struggling with the question of maintenance releases versus "normal" releases, in the context of an application installed on-site at large organisations who pay for support. First let me define my terms:
Imagine we've released versions 1...
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Suppose we are working on 5.5 release and the customer found some in point releases unless....
Going forward, you should make sure your future contracts do maintainance and normal releases.
releases" then your company is screwed.
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Why is Scala binary incompatible between different releases?
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Because Sun is kind....
There are some changes in the new release that were anxiously awaited and that help with a lot of problems, but it wasn't possible to make them backward compatible.
It's still relatively young and undergoing active development.
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We have the standard Subversion trunk/branches/tags layout. We have several branches for medium- and long-term projects, but none so far for a release. This is approaching fast.
Should we:
Mix release branches and project branches together? Create a releases...
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Major, long-term, or massive changes.
Have you got multiple projects inside your trunk? In that case for what releases, and then they get moved into the trunk.
Releases is the same as tags...
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What's your prefered method to name your software releases? Like Microsoft: alpha - beta - final - service pack... Like Google: gmail beta - beta - beta - beta - :) Like some softwares: 0.2 - 0.3 - 0.9999...
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(for bugfixes/maintenance releases) (where x,y if Minor releases are....
(for minor releases containing minor new features and enhancements) x.y.1, x.y.2, etc.
releases, containing important/lots of new features) x.1, x.2, etc.
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As an alternative to this question what is the best way to manage custom versions of software for a particular client?
Most of the differences between client releases is changes to the user interface to customize the software to look like it is owned ...
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Since these branches won't ever get rolled up into trunk or another release branch, don't.
Where your client releases are branches of your customer releases.
Release-v1-google /release-v1-microsoft ....
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At regular intervals, I receive a new release of a vendor's software, delivered as source code in a compressed package, and I don't have access to the vendor's source code repository. We make changes to the vendor's source code between their releases....
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After that, you can merge the changes between the last two vendor releases (aka the last tweo revisions.
Subversion now has the correct diff information for everything vendor X did during the two releases.
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I am wondering what is best practice when it comes to dependencies and how releases should be done. In my case I have a library that relies on log4net and I am wondering if I should distribute log4net.dll (set the log4net reference to copy local) along...
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It also means that anyone wanting to get started with your project can... .
I prefer keeping 3rd party libraries local - it makes it clearer what the dependencies are and what version you're using .
I'm not a big fan of putting log4net (or NUnit) in the GAC .
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I was looking over the standee offerings and saw Ebbles Labs released the Repair Team , the Itoyo 950 and the Handyman 350 !
Very cute figures! Did I miss the announcement?
Gaa! Ebbles Labs is filled with even more releases than I had noticed. I guess...
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Was going to do my Roll Areana but have friend with Robo cutter so will get it cut over at his place so I don't mess the measurements... .
Really liked it came together quite nicely and fast.
Built the Repair team over the weekend for an upcoming encounter .
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How can you remain competetive in the market place and also keep your credentials up-to-date?
I am considering going for the MCPD, but im afraid that it will soon be out of date! The current exams revlove around .net 2.0, asp.net, c# 2.0 etc.
But in the...
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Possibly a cert might open a few more doors for actual interviews... .
Job experience tends to be the main deciding factor in interviews .
As you said, things change quickly.
I have found that for the most part, software development certifications are not necessary .
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Imagine you have a large software project where you have to support several branches (releases) at the same time. For instance you have a production release on the website, a integration test release that is currently tested by the customer, a testing...
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If you really want to handle....
If the modified file is changed, the developer is notified workflow .
Is that all "higher" releases are updated automatically without developer or build manager actions if the file is unchanged in those releases.
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