Setup Matters

Today's meeting was relatively quick -- because we had only a handful of issues to triage -- and quiet, because the to-be-triaged issues were relatively noncontroversial. (We did surprise and delight the audience by announcing WiX v4.0.2, coming very soon.) I appreciate peaceful and short meetings as much as the next person, but if you're looking for more action in your favorite open-source triage meetings, go find a bug in WiX that has the potential for virtual fisticuffs.

Today was all about the triage. Included in triage were three of the WIPs I wrote for the features I plan to implement in WiX v5. We didn't discuss them today but please do read them and comment. We'll likely discuss them at a future meeting, but as I write the meeting highlights, I get to draw extra attention to them here today. That's one of the powers of the pen.

Today we had a nice mix of bugs and feature requests that was reminiscent of triage during the WiX v3.x days more so than the past few months of getting WiX v4 out to everybody. Nature is healing.

Today is Patch Tuesday the 13th, which I'm sure will be just fine and is in no way something to be superstitiously nervous about. Read on to hear about our successful launch of WiX v4.0.1 and the first discussion of the features that we're building in WiX v5.

Two months after WiX v4 was released—and one day after FireGiant's 10th birthday—WiX v4.0.1 is now available.

In the US, Memorial Day is considered the unofficial start of summer and the temperatures, at least for me here in the Midwest, are reinforcing that. It's hot enough that I'm staying in the cool indoors coding even cooler WiX features and occasionally summarizing our WiX Online Meetings.