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The Release Engineering of 4.3\s-1BSD\s0
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Marshall Kirk McKusick
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Michael J. Karels
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Keith Bostic
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Computer Systems Research Group
Computer Science Division
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California  94720
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This paper describes an approach used by a small group of people
to develop and integrate a large software system.
It details the development and release engineering strategy
used during the preparation of the \*(b3 version of the UNIX\(dg
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operating system.
Each release cycle is divided into an initial development phase
followed by a release engineering phase.
The release engineering of the distribution is done in three steps.
The first step has an informal control policy for tracking modifications;
it results in an alpha distribution.
The second step has more rigid change mechanisms in place;
it results in a beta release.
During the final step changes are tracked very closely;
the result is the final distribution.
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