Why OpenBSD's Release Process Works 310
An anonymous reader writes "Twelve years ago OpenBSD developers started engineering a release process that has resulted in quality software being delivered on a consistent 6 month schedule — 25 times in a row, exactly on the date promised, and with no critical bugs. This on-time delivery process is very different from how corporations manage their product releases and much more in tune with how volunteer driven communities are supposed to function.
Theo de Raadt explains in this presentation how the OpenBSD release process is managed (video) and why it has been such a success."
Re:Summary? (Score:5, Funny)
Its not... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:No critical bugs? BS. (Score:5, Funny)
MS-DOS: zero remote holes in the default install.
Re:Summary? (Score:0, Funny)
Here is the executive summary:
Slashdotted??? (Score:3, Funny)
Is it possible to slashdot youtube? I tried to watch but the video had these annoying pauses...
Re:No critical bugs? BS. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Slashdotted??? (Score:5, Funny)
That was a William Shatner video.
Re:No Bearded GNU Freaks Why BSD Is So Good (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Congratulations! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:slides (Score:1, Funny)
Hey dude, there's this awesome new tech that allows you to make text or addresses clickable so that people don't have to copy and paste addresses. It's called "magic clicky text" and you can see it in use on the so-called "Global Wide Thatchwork".
Re:Is there a transcript? (Don't have time to watc (Score:5, Funny)
Long story short: Theo rules with an iron fist and springs releases like pop quizzes.
Re:Summary? (Score:3, Funny)
mode != mean
first post getting -1 redundant mod == mean
Re:No critical bugs? BS. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Summary? (Score:3, Funny)
Basically, they only allow developers who are willing to sit through a 30-minute video to work on their software.
...during which Theo tells them if they don't hit their release deadlines, he'll eat their children.
Re:Summary? (Score:5, Funny)
No, but assuming you can operationalize 'intelligence', it's a testable hypothesis. And it's always better to explicitly and not implicitly assume. Otherwise people think you're hiding something, 644bd346996 -- if that is even your real name.
Re:WHY does OpenBSD's release process work? (Score:5, Funny)
OpenBSD is as useless as a bag of rocks
**hits anonymous cowardon the head with a bag of rocks
**thinks that was actually pretty useful.
Re:Summary? (Score:2, Funny)
You lost me at Comic Sans.
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