Why are apps like Fairemail, Voyager, etc. updated so often? Why don’t they collect the changes and release them once a month or something like that?

It’s interesting that every time I open Voyager I see an update warnin at the bottom. Is that really required?

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Big releases are harder to test and debug issues.

    If your release contains a single change and something goes wrong, you’ve got a pretty good idea of where the problem is before you even start to look.

    If the friction of creating a release is low (with automated tooling) and updating is (typically) automatic there’s not really a good reason to not release as often as possible in most cases.