Greetings all,
tl;dr
1. New Issue Tracker - please experiment with new issue tracker sandbox:
http://wixtoolset.org/bugout/
a. Send your blocking issues with the new issue tracker to me.
2. Regular WiX triage - coming soon weekly or bi-weekly online meetings to
discuss the state of WiX.
a. Clear your calendar and make sure you can log in via Lync/Web Lync.
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Update
It's been too long since I sent out status about what I'm working on. So here
is an update.
For the last few months, I've been heads down working on a bunch of "back
office" improvements for the WiX toolset. The current "back office"
infrastructure on SourceForge has been decaying for many years now. It's been
on Bob's and my radar to migrate away from SF for a long time. I'm finally
making time to do it (before SF falls apart completely <smile/>).
One of the first projects you may have noticed was the documentation build was
massively redone. One of the key goals of that project was to get the
documentation updating on the WiX website again. I'm now in the final steps to
throw the switch and redirect all traffic from the out of date
http://wix.sf.net/ to http://wixtoolset.org/. I'm very excited to get that
completed (probably over the weekend to minimize disruption).
Issue Tracker
After the documentation build I turned my attention to our bugs. The "new"
SourceForge issue tracker is a step down from the previous issue tracker that
wasn't all that great to begin with. So I looked at CodePlex and Github. The
Codeplex tracker was not impressive but the Github tracker was pretty nice.
However, both of them tie permissions to the issue tracker with permissions to
the repository. That doesn't work with the WiX toolset code flow (assignment
agreements) so both were out.
After looking at a bunch of different options (including YouTrack) that were
all very complex systems, I considered creating a new issue tracker. There were
a few web technologies I wanted to experiment with and an issue tracker was a
great opportunity to do that. After a couple weeks, I'm quite happy with the
new tracker functionality and expect it to really streamline our issue workflow.
Please, take a little time to play in the current sandbox at
http://wixtoolset.org/bugout/
If all goes well and you guys provide enough feedback here, I hope to take this
issue tracker live over the weekend.
(source code at: http://github.com/robmen/tinybugs/ - note the code is at a
bare minimum to support our needs in the WiX toolset, polishing will come with
later releases).
Triage
I would like to start hosting weekly or bi-weekly (every other week) WiX Triage
online meetings. FireGiant (http://www.firegiant.com) has an O365 account that
I believe will allow me to host up to 200 people in an online meeting. I think
that should support our needs.
First order of business for the meeting will be to discuss our release schedule
(WiX v3.8 anyone?). Second order of business will be to organize our backlog of
bugs to match our desired release schedule. I expect the bug triage will take
multiple sessions to complete.
In preparation for that meeting I'll be sending out meeting requests for later
this week so you can practice connecting. Jump on the test meeting, verify that
you say "Hi" to me (and hear me respond) then you'll be ready for the real
meeting. Additionally, please send me times that are *not* possible for you to
meet. I'll try hard to accommodate as many people as I can.
I hope to have the first WiX Triage meeting sometime next week so get back to
me quick. You wouldn't want to miss the first meeting. <smile/>
As always, feel free to send me questions/comments.
virtually,
Rob Mensching
Benevolent Dictator
WiX toolset
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