Overview of release engineering - the way from lines of code to the downloadable installer
A short peek behind the curtain of the various steps that are involved in making a release
27.Sep.2013 from 15:30 to
16:00
30
minutes
Sala Beta
Details of the Talk
Unlike many other open source projects (but similar to those who also target Windows users), the LibreOffice project doesn't only provide sourcecode, but also provides binaries for the enduser.
This short talk will give you a sneek peek of the process from the bare sources to the installable binaries that can be downloaded from the www.libreoffice.org website.
It covers all the way from the release plan, the branch model, how tags are created, how QA is involved up to distributing the builds on the mirror-network.
Target Audience (everyone is invited, that list is not exclusive):
- everyone who is interested in the the release process in general
- people interested in helping out with QA (apart from bug triage), but are unsure when to spend time dealing with which build/codeline