Setup Matters

Today was both Patch Tuesday and the 13th day of the month but our luck held out and today's meeting was a smoothly-running 30 minutes.

Today we had only five bugs to triage, yet the meeting still lasted a typical half-hour. That sounds familiar.

Luckily, last week's rate of incoming issues didn't continue. But we still ended up with 15 issues to triage today.

Yesterday we had five bugs to triage. By the time today's meeting actually arrived, we had 10 bugs. If that trend continues, next week's meeting will be quite interesting...

Today we had six issues to triage and there wasn't much controversy over any issue, though a couple caused extended discussion, mostly along the lines of "what's going on here?"

On Monday, WiX Toolset v3.10 was released. The primary focus of v3.10 was to add support for Visual Studio 2015. However, we were able to slip something very important into the release at the very last minute: support for the updated ISO IEC/19770-2:2015 specification (better known as Software Identification Tags or SWID Tags). At FireGiant we think SWID Tags have an important role to play in software deployment so let's look at the support in WiX v3.10.