Thoughts
Some modern minimalist thoughts:
Release early (before it's been 100% tested)
Release quickly (small turn around time)
Shouldn't be
releasing often (it's minimalist software). Compare to release-early-release-often from Bazaar.
Shouldn't have a lot of whack-a-mole if you design your system to be explicit and at times verbose (semantic; pizza example). Components should be independent. (Only end-to-end tests, to avoid solidification of code.)
Don't semver; rolling release of bug fixes.
Somehow I've never posted the pizza example of semantic/modular design?