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Closing in on 300 Releases

That’s 300 releases of the Foundation’s Portal.  We’re likely to hit that number this week.  Since the Portal rolled out for the first time a little over two years ago, we’ve managed to release an average of two updates a week to the code that brings the community things like automated committer elections, management of project meta-data, managing your own contact information, requesting intellectual property review, and a host of other services.  We develop using Agile development practices and have a whole suite of tests that run at each release, serving as both verification of the code and also as online process documentation.  Rarely have we made releases only to fix bugs, so it’s fair to say that the majority of the work has been in improving the feature set.  We’re proud of the milestone we’ve hit but we’re not going to stop improving things.  Look for more in the near future.

Posted February 17th, 2009 by Karl Matthias in category: Uncategorized
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