That&#x27;s not what this means at all. In any given company there are X individuals across Y teams involved in deploying a piece of software (never mind an emergency patch). Stakeholders in this context refers to all those involved to make it happen: devs, QA, PMs, documentation, marketing, etc.<p>The problem isn&#x27;t solved as soon as a patch is released. This is serious damage control. Handled poorly it blows up. A lone dev doesn&#x27;t&#x2F;shouldn&#x27;t hold all that responsibility.