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On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 14:00 -0500, Matthew George wrote:
> Greetings
> 
> Some time ago, I came across a paper describing in great detail the FreeBSD 
> Development Process and software lifecycle.  I'm having trouble locating it now, 
> and was wondering if anyone could throw me a pointer.  It's not any of the 
> standard /usr/share/doc or website releng stuff.  I remember it talking at 
> length about the way releases evolve WRT cvs tagging ...
> 
> The paper at http://www.ruc.dk/~nielsj/research/papers/freebsd.pdf (Putting it 
> All in the Trunk: Incremental Software Development in the FreeBSD Open Source 
> Project) seems close to the paper I'm looking for, but the one I want was more 
> focused on an analysis of the development model and wasn't based on a survey of 
> committers.
> 
> Does this ring a bell with anybody?
> 

http://niklas.saers.com/thesis/thesis.html ?

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