Maintenance
5 items tagged with "maintenance"
Glossaries5
Technical Debt
The implied cost of additional rework caused by choosing an easy solution now instead of a better approach
Software Drift
Software drift is the growing gap between the dependencies, runtimes, and frameworks a codebase actually uses and their current, supported versions.
End of Life (EOL)
End of life is the date after which a software version no longer receives support or security patches from its maintainer — leaving any vulnerability found afterwards permanently unpatched on that version.
Dependency Drift
Dependency drift is the growing gap between the dependency versions a project declares and the current, supported releases of those same packages.
Software Currency
Software currency is how up to date a system's components are relative to their current, supported releases — the positive framing of low drift.