%0 Conference Paper %B OSS2007: Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation (IFIP 2.13) %D 2007 %T Release Management in Free Software Projects: Practices and Problems %A Martin Michlmayr %A Hunt, Francis %A Probert, David %X 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. %B OSS2007: Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation (IFIP 2.13) %S IFIP International Federation for Information Processing %I Springer %V 234/2007 %P 295 - 300 %8 2007/// %G eng %& 31 %R http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72486-7_31 %> https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/Release%20Management%20in%20Free%20Software.pdf