16 | | * The release process should be short. I.e. the time between the first RC and the final release should be a matter of weeks not many months. |
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18 | | * A release period should be a time of concerted action during which all developers give priority to the release in place of other developments. |
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20 | | * All developers respect a call for commit freeze during a release process. |
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22 | | * It is sometimes better to ship a release with a known bug than with unknown consequences of an untested bug fix. |
| 16 | * The release process should be short. I.e. the time between the first RC and the final release should be a matter of weeks not many months. |
| 17 | * A release period should be a time of concerted action during which all developers give priority to the release in place of other developments. |
| 18 | * All developers respect a call for commit freeze during a release process. |
| 19 | * It is sometimes better to ship a release with a known bug than with unknown consequences of an untested bug fix. |