Done means released. Everything else is inventory.
The article discusses the concept of Continuous Delivery (CD) in software development, emphasizing that 'done' means released to end users. It highlights the importance of separating deployment and release as distinct events, with deployment being a technical action and release being a business decision. The author argues that organizations often create barriers to implementing CD without thoroughly examining these obstacles.
- ▪Continuous Delivery ensures that the code is always in a deployable state, allowing for on-demand releases.
- ▪Deployments and releases are separate events; deployment is a technical action while release is a human decision.
- ▪The article emphasizes that unreleased stories should be a conscious decision, not an oversight.
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| Original publisher | DEV.to (Top) |
| Canonical URL | https://dev.to/natyoung/done-means-released-everything-else-is-inventory-46fc |
| Publication time | Fri, 29 May 2026 13:08:35 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-29T13:20:00.413Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-29T13:20:00.413Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | kNYMKNHC13UR |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3942731) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Nat Young Posted on May 29 • Originally published at mainline.dev Done means released. Everything else is inventory. #continuousdelivery #ci #softwaredevelopment #devops continuous-delivery-practices (3 Part Series) 1 Are you really doing CI/CD? 2 You have a CI pipeline. You're probably not doing CI. 3 Done means released. Everything else is inventory. Part 3. Part 1 was trunk-based development. Part 2 was continuous integration.
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