# Do you all have a a branching and release policy?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/do-you-all-have-a-a-branching-and-release-policy/33724>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Created:** [September 1, 2020, 11:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/do-you-all-have-a-a-branching-and-release-policy/33724 "2020-09-01T23:03:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bob\_Reselman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Bob\_Reselman](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Bob_Reselman)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2020, 11:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/do-you-all-have-a-a-branching-and-release-policy/33724/1 "2020-09-01T23:03:13Z")

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I am doing an article on branching and release policies for the most popular open-source projects. To say Ansible is not popular is an extreme understatement.

Thus, I ask, do you have have a branching and release policy/pattern that I can read? Or is it a matter of convention and tribal knowledge? If so, what is the policy/pattern?

Thanks in advance,  
Bob Reselman

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**Author:** ![relrod](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/relrod/32/107_2.png) [@relrod](https://forum.ansible.com/u/relrod)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/do-you-all-have-a-a-branching-and-release-policy/33724/2 "2020-09-03T00:32:01Z")

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Hi Bob,

I’ve been handling our releases for the last few months. In response to your question, I wrote a short(ish) blog post, outlining some of our processes while trying to not go into too much technical detail.  
The post is available here: [https://elrod.me/posts/2020-09-02-how-ansible-ansible-base-releases-work.html](https://elrod.me/posts/2020-09-02-how-ansible-ansible-base-releases-work.html)

It also links to a few documents that you might find useful.

I’m happy to answer any specific questions you have! Feel free to ping me (relrod) on #ansible-devel on freenode any time.

Rick