[zerop]

Any good documentation that talks about how big open source software manage code changes, releases cadences, given contributors from across the world.

[wronglyprepaid]

I'm fairly sure this differs for different project/organization, not sure there is a rule, and not sure there are really any considerations that are specific to open source, good practices are good practices regardless.

That being said, I rate Canonical's practices as rather poor.

[zerop]

Taking an example, how are Linux Kernel releases are planned and managed