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Software people, how do you do releases? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Step 9. Write documentation

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You don't write self documenting code?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I write self documenting code, as long as you are a Python interpreter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You are trying to kill the fun :-)

(maybe you are too young to know the C one liner's contests?)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 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.