Setup Matters

Today's meeting happens on the 237th Constitution Day in the United States. (Technically, I'd argue that 17-September 1787 ought to count as the first Constitution Day.) Not to make this blog post overly political but it's important for me to acknowledge my unwavering support for the Third—and least controversial—Amendment: Soldiers are welcome; just ask.

Our meeting last month was mostly a no-op due to Rob being out of commission with a case of imbalanced humours. So our meeting this month meant that we had two months of accumulated issues to triage. All the data suggests that one month between meetings is fine but two months is way too long. (All the data includes how long it's taken me to write up these highlights.) Our next meeting is scheduled for 17-September.

It's been just under a month since our last meeting and we've accumulated a decent chunk of issues that need to be triaged. So, naturally, Rob got sick. We anticipate a full recovery but for now, we'll leave him to his chicken soup and rest while listening to the replay of today's 55th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch to the moon.

As everyone monitoring the WiX repo on GitHub knows, there's recently been activity hinting at an upcoming release of WiX. (And if you're not monitoring the WiX repo, why not?! All the cool kids are doing it! You want to be cool, right?) Well, the hints were right and today we're announcing the release of WiX v5.0.1.

The WiX Toolset discussions area on GitHub recovered from its spammer onslaught so we brought it back online shortly after our last meeting. Today's meeting was our first meeting with a full four weeks between meetings and, other than having a couple more issues to triage, we're still happy with the monthly cadence. Our next meeting is scheduled for 16-July.

The WiX Toolset discussions area on GitHub is currently offline because an army of spambots decided that WiX users were more interested in dodgy movie downloads than their favorite deployment-development toolset. We're waiting on GitHub to clean up all the offending entries. In the meantime, we had our first monthly meeting (albeit only three weeks after our last one) and so far, the new frequency is working out just fine. Our next meeting is scheduled for 18 June.