A recent significant development in release management I think flew under the radar for many: the Abseil C++ library's adoption of a "live at head" policy as its recommended method of depending on the library. What the maintainers mean by "live at head" is to "depend on and build the latest snapshot of Abseil," which implies that every commit to the head of the repo is to be considered a production release to be compiled in. The head of the main branch is the current release, period. The project is also tagging LTS releases every six months with support of two years pledged but also state there is nothing special about those tags, that it's just a snapshot at that point in time. Despite recommending against depending on their LTS releases, they are providing this for who the live at head policy doesn't work. Abseil release management: https://lnkd.in/egFchD4f --- #ReleaseManagement #Cplusplus #SoftwareEngineering #VersionControl #LiveAtHead #Abseil #OpenSourceSoftware #SoftwareDevelopment #LTSReleases #SoftwareUpdates #embedded #software #Cprogramming #CplusplusProgramming #C
