Other / Our Release Process

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Since branching Bolt v1 and onwards, we've spent time thinking about how - as a community based project - we could best manage our release process.

Some of the points that we're trying to consider in this discussion are:

• Keep the project moving, don't stagnate
• Keep our processes in line with our vision of simplicity
• Keep the management of processes from interfering with the fun we have writing the code, documentation, and community interaction
• Learn from the success of other projects, as well as from their mistakes
• Release early, release often!

Schedule & Roadmap¶

Release schedules follow the basic pattern of:

• 14 day feature window (hard limit)
• 14 day bug fix window (soft end-limit)
• 14 day contingency window (only if required)
• Release!

An example would be: