My team has this one shared component that gets involved in like every feature’s development. This year, we’re loading like 5 different features onto it, all with different timelines, and my head’s about to explode trying to figure out how to make it all fly.

How does everyone else do their software releases? Do you freeze prod and then do one big release later? Throw everything into prod during dev, hope no one sees the unreleased stuff, and just announce it later? Or something else entirely?

  • Toes♀
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    124 months ago

    Step 1 use git

    Step 1.2 attempt to understand the whimsical tale the project manager sold the client on

    Step 1.4 realize those dreams.

    Step 2 feature freeze

    Step 3 blocking issues are addressed

    Step 4 QA

    Step 4.2 discover what the project manager really meant, goto step 1.4.

    Step 5 smoke test

    Step 6 release

    Step 7 goto step 1.2

    Step 8 add Linux support

      • @[email protected]
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        54 months ago

        Step 9. Write documentation

        But real programmers never do that. That code was hard to write, so it should be hard to read!

        :-)

    • @[email protected]
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      44 months ago

      Warning in step 5: Magic smoke was let out of EVB on two occasions because someone forgot to check the power supply.

      Error in step 8: Attempting to install Linux on target MCU overran my 300k of flash.