Release Engineering
Disclaimer
What follows is just "chicken scratchings" for the LDRD Final Report.Grab Bag
- Definition: Is this a product or not?
- 2 Extremes with a continuum between:
- Source code for everything, LBNL copyright on all
- Extensions to free packages
- Extensions to commercial packages
- What happens when they die
- "MS Word macros" (analogous to AVS networks) - recipes for using a commercial package
- Marketing plan
- Who is the audience/user base?
- What does tool/environment do for them?
- What will they do with it?
- IP issues: Who "owns" what?
- Maintanence issues over the life of the "product"
- QA of product: Who does it?
- Bug reporting, fix responsiveness
- Who promotes product?