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by politelemon 387 days ago
The cadence of releases is not related to quality. There will always be variances depending on the codebase involved and organisational constraints and product velocities. I could easily say that more frequent or less frequent releases are also a cause for concern.
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mkl95 387 days ago
We are talking about a Gen AI startup that has a handful of employees here. They have little excuse not to implement CI/CD, unless they lack confidence in their product's quality.
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Mashimo 387 days ago
Ignoring the Claude AI release, why does releasing 1 - 3 per week implies low confidence and quality issues?
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friendzis 387 days ago
It means you release whatever you have first thing and then release a bunch of patch releases on top as the QA (outsourced on users, probably) results come back.

Sans security patches, why are your features not sized to roughly a sprint? What do you manage to prepare, build and validate in a day or two? To me release cadence less than every few weeks screams "whatever landed in master is good to go" and is a sign of mis-/un-managed development.

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Mashimo 387 days ago
Maybe they don't do sprints.

Yeah, could be user feedback. And if it's a public beta release why not?

3 devs working for 5 days on each their feature means 3 releases per week.

For the last 10+ years I have been working on the same project with 2 releases per year, so what do I know. But I have used projects with quick release cycles that work very closely with the community. Push new beta, feedback on discord. Was also fine from my (limited) perspective.

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DonHopkins 387 days ago
Because they should be spending one day writing scripts and github actions for their CI/CD system before pushing out new code by hand or AI assistance several times a week.

Releasing 1 - 3 times a week means it's 1 - 3 times more important to have a deterministic release process than if you release 1 time a week.

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Mashimo 387 days ago
Yes yes, I agree with a deterministic release process. I get that, and it's not what I'm asking about.

I still don't understand why 1 - 3 releases per week implies low confidence and quality issues.

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