Setup Matters

Back in November, we announced the FireGiant AppX Extension for the WiX Toolset and support for Windows Server Applications (WSA). Today, FireGiant CEO and co-founder Rob Mensching appears on Microsoft's Channel 9 with Xumin Sun, a program manager on the Nano Server team. In the brief video, Rob and Xumin discuss WSA and the benefits of targeting both MSI and AppX from a single set of authoring, one of the big benefits of the FireGiant AppX Extension.

Mass excitement this week: Plenty to triage and even more to talk about with WiX's first security update. With a little luck, we have some nice boring weeks ahead of us.

Welcome to 2016! We took a few weeks off for the past couple of Friday holidays but even with the holidays, bugs accumulated. And they did so in our new GitHub issue tracker. All our issues—past, present, and future—now live there. The new bug landing page describes how we're using GitHub issues and how to file a bug or feature request.

Careful readers of the WiX online meeting highlights series will have noted that not quite six months ago, during online meeting #73, Rob showed off some proposals for an updted logo for the WiX Toolset that FireGiant had commissioned. And that was the last to be heard of said logo. Until today.

We skipped last Friday's meeting because both Rob and I weren't going to be conveniently located next to a microphone, though my jury duty ended up being a nonissue. This week we had a quorum on the bench and triaged—for the third meeting in a row—six issues.

We skipped a meeting last Friday because too many participants were still in a Thanksgiving food coma. This week we had a full crew on the bench in the call and triaged six issues.