[[wp:Release engineering]] is the discipline of releasing a software product or service to an audience. It is the liason between product managers, developers, testers, system administrators, consumers and/or users, legal, marketing, customer service and other constituents.
* test production
* revert or send release note
== Release Plan ==
Many groups in the free software world have coalesced around a time-based release plan. For example, Canonical releases the [[Ubuntu]] operating system every 6 months. Other projects have followed suit, at least in part to get their new releases packaged into the OS updates. For example, the Document Foundation (sponsor of the [[LibreOffice]] suite, uses a 6-month, time-based [https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan Release Plan]. Also, as a free software collaborative, their entire [https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development Development Process] is documented in their wiki.