Release contracts

A release contract is an agreement between the release team and one or more contributors to attempt to integrate some desirable change into a release build.

Release contracts normally describe:

• the required quality of an acceptable change,
• a test plan for judging the quality of a proposed change,
• who will execute the test plan, and
• the consequences of breaking the "contract".

(Typically, violation of a release contract will result in deferral of the proposed change.)

Examples are available.

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