She seemed intrigued by the idea of a release manager, and saw the need for this role in a project she was working on. Unable to find a formal job description, I wrote this document as an explanation. Since she was going to forward it on to proprietary software project managers, I took care to explain some of the differences in the two styles of development. It is by no means complete, but it should impart a sense of the issues involved. Automated Build Tree.
All development I do is for free software or open source software, if you will. The word "free" refers not to the cost, but to the fact that all users have the freedom to modify and redistribute it. As such, the development model is a little different. With proprietary software, release management involves making sure that you have a running executable program that passes certain tests. It's what my colleague Ben Woodard calls the "blessed binary approach".
The release manager takes all of the source code and data files from all over the project and hacks them together by hand until there is a working product. In the free software world, however, we use a different tactic. Since the preferred form of software distribution is an archive of source code, we provide a set of scripts to automatically compile and build the application on a variety of platforms.
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