Setup Matters

Today was the last WiX Online Meeting...to be held via Skype, that is. Microsoft is encouraging everyone to switch to Teams so Rob is investigating whether we can use Teams to hold future WiX Online Meetings so everyone can participate, and you can hear Sean and me, and not just Rob.

In an ongoing trend of alternating meetings with few and many issues to triage, today we had only a couple issues to triage and spent a bit of time talking about the one-hopes-to-be-imminent release of Votive for Visual Studio 2019.

Our last meeting was very short because we had no new issues to triage. Today's meeting isn't terribly long but we had a bunch of issues to triage, though only a few we could take action on.

Today's meeting is perhaps the shortest we've ever had. There were no new issues to triage and only a brief announcement from Rob. I will definitely spend more time preparing these highlights than the meeting itself took so in a philosophical sense, are they still merely highlights? These are the questions to ponder in the extra time we have available to us, thanks to a meeting that ends earlier than scheduled.

Welcome to the 167th WiX Online Meeting, the first since last Friday's 15-year anniversary of WiX's first open source release in 2004! Rob wrote about WiX's 15th anniversary here at Setup Matters and I did so briefly on my blog as well.

Today marks the 15th Anniversary of the WiX Toolset's release as Open Source. The impact of this "relatively insignificant geekware tool" (Time, 10 May, 2004) over the last decade and a half is profound. The largest software companies in the world use WiX to create installation packages for their flagship products.