Questions tagged [release]
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Is my git branch strategy best practice?
We are a small software team with 6 members. We are working on different software projects in our company.
Before I joined the team no version control system was used. It was/is my task to reorganize ...
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How to improve my current development/release process
I'm looking for suggestions on how to modernise my development/release practices by potentially introducing some automation. I'll outline the current process to help explain why I'm currently ...
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GitHub Versioning - Organizing Structure
I am making a JS library that creates graphs and charts using canvas. I have hosted it on GitHub as a public repository.
So after looking at some other related questions, I have figured out two ...
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Is there a legitimate case for short lived, destructible release branches?
At my current workplace there are some projects that when preparing a release will
backup the current RELEASE branch by making a branch from it with the current date (this isnt technically required, ...
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Writing Release Notes for gradual feature rollout
Our software product is not complete, but it is functional enough that one of our clients is using it.
We produce release notes with every sprint. The notes are divided into sections such as "New ...
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Gitflow - Share release branch executable with tester before tagging it
I use GitFlow as a workflow for versionning for less than 1 month. I've just finished to develop a feature branch which has been merged to develop/. Now, I'm starting a release branch from develop. ...
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How to deal with multiple release/hotfix branches in Gitflow?
I'm implementing Gitflow at the company I currently work for and everything is going pretty well. I'm just not completely sure if I'm dealing with more than one release on the pipeline at the same ...
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Re-runnable db alter scripts
Is there a standard on db alter scripts (both data and ddl), should they be re-runnable if so what are the reasons for making them re-runnable.
The only web pages I could find are telling me how to ...
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Using gitflow, when do people tend to close off the release branch?
We're using the gitflow branching strategy and it works well. What I can't seem to find though is a recommendation on what point people close their releases.
For example, suppose we got 4 ...
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How to manage versions on monorepo with application requires to support multiple releases?
I try to figure out how to manage versions in an monorepo where one of the packages is an application that needs to support multiple releases.
Assume we have a monorepo with just two packages: lib ...
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One version or multiple versions for the release with many Microservices?
We are planning to move into Microservices. Currently on the design talks stage.
Thinking of how to versioning the releases?
Let's say we will start with 10 microservices. We want to develop them and ...
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Is deciding the release date before collecting all requirements un-agile?
I have just started reading the book Applying UML and Patterns by Craig Larman. I find it very interesting because it challenges many of what I have been told at work. I read that requirements aren't ...
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Knowing what will get released in gitflow
We are a web SaaS company using gitflow and JIRA. As we are 'done' (QA approved) with a feature, we move the story/ticket forward in Jira to a 'done' status. At that point we wait until it gets ...
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Are there examples of having 2 Release version numbers for different components in the same monolithic image?
I am new to an organization that has a release version number for their vision software and a different release version number for the supporting functionality (dvr, provisioning, etc) around that ...
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How do we avoid development files in the release?
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Our Python project is hosted at GitHub. The actual release should only contain handful of files, but or project also contains several non-release files that are required for testing and ...
