Setup Matters

As noted in our last meeting, this meeting was held three weeks later instead of our usual fortnightly pattern, because Rob was going to be on vacation. Rob was indeed on vacation last Thursday, though some of us continued to slave away without complaint. There are no vacations scheduled in the immediate future, so our next meeting is on 28-April, as per normal schedule.

Today, in addition to triaging a number of new, incoming issues, we triaged a bunch of existing issues that hadn't been assigned to a milestone. We wanted to see how many should be assigned to WiX v4. We didn't get through all of them and will have to wrap up their triage at our next meeting.

Today's meeting was all about that triage, mostly re-triaging issues for a closer, up-to-date look at those issues. Unfortunately, Rob and Sean disagreed with my opinion on more than one occasion today, even though I'm the one who writes these highlights. Nonetheless, I shall maintain my highest levels of editorial neutrality and fairly report their bad opinions and general poopyheadedness.

A new Street Fighter coming out, an upcoming Tears for Fears album, and constant background fears of nuclear war: Lots of late-80s nostalgia going on today, as we spend an hour discussing a single issue.

Today's meeting covered triage and discussion of the perils of relying on the cloud (aka other people's computers). It was prime. Literally, as 229 is a prime number. In fact, it's the 50th prime number, which must be an important anniversary deserving of celebration.

Rob's "manual digital automation system" -- where "digital" refers to fingers -- didn't quite get around to sending mail notifying everyone of today's meeting. So while we didn't have a thundering horde of viewers watching the live stream, we nonetheless managed to attract someone new, who'd never attended before. I'll call that a win!