@conference {647, title = {Release Management in Free Software Projects: Practices and Problems}, booktitle = {OSS2007: Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation (IFIP 2.13)}, series = {IFIP International Federation for Information Processing }, volume = {234/2007}, year = {2007}, month = {2007///}, pages = {295 - 300}, publisher = {Springer}, organization = {Springer}, chapter = {31}, abstract = {Release management plays an important role in every software project since it is concerned with the delivery of a high quality product to end-users. This paper explores release practices employed by volunteer free software projects and shows problems that occur. A challenge that has been identified is the difficulty of coordinating a distributed team of volunteers in order to align their work for a release. }, issn = {978-0-387-72485-0}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72486-7_31}, attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/Release\%20Management\%20in\%20Free\%20Software.pdf}, author = {Martin Michlmayr and Hunt, Francis and Probert, David} }