Fig. 2
From: Herding cats in a FOSS ecosystem: a tale of communication and coordination for release management
GNOME six-month release schedule in weeks and its milestones. A release cycle starts immediately after a major release. The stable version is kept in a branch for bug fixes, whereas the regular development continues in the main branch. The release cycle starts with a release meeting to evaluate the last cycle, and to discuss the next cycle. The stages drive the type of communication. This illustration is based on data obtained from multiple release schedules available on the release team’s wiki page and from our interviewees