elego Software Solutions

Title of the presentation: Subversion's release process

Level: Advanced

Date and time: Wednesday, 28th of October 2009, 11:15am - 12:00am

Room: Madrid

Abstract: It will answer questions such as how a release of Subversion is made, how Subversion's developers try to ensure the quality of a release, how fixes are made to a stable release line, and how Subversion releases reach their users through various binary package providers.

It will also highlight current problems in the release process, explain what particular problems past releases of Subversion had and why, and discuss with the audience how Subversion's users could help ensure that future releases of Subversion will be of higher quality than or at least of equal quality to our past releases.

Stefan Sperling has studied computer science at Free University of Berlin, Germany, and University College Cork, Ireland. He has been working with elego for many years. Since the beginning of 2007 he has been contributing to the Subversion project and became a full committer for the project in early 2008. 

Hyrum K.Wright has been the release manager for Subversion since 2007, and is currently President of the Subversion Corporation. He has Bachelor's and Master's degrees in computer engineering, and is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in software engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Hyrum has participated in the Subversion open source community since 2006, and maintains an active consulting practice.