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08/21/2024

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 t...

07/16/2024

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 o...

07/16/2024

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 rele...

06/18/2024

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...

05/22/2024

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....

04/30/2024

Not every meeting can be an email but that doesn't mean we need to hold every meeting all the time. We'll be meeting slightly less often, at least for the time being, but it doesn't mean we love you all any less. Read on for our new meeting schedule.

04/17/2024

In the past three weeks, we shipped a bunch of security releases, a WiX release candidate, HeatWave and HeatWave Build Tools releases, the WiX v5 release, and celebrated the 20th anniversary of the first time WiX was publicly available. Yeah, yeah, time to quit slacking...

04/05/2024

Twenty years ago today, the WiX Toolset was released as Open Source. Twenty years is a long time in the software industry. So, while many people like to focus on the Open Source part of the WiX story, I want to take a moment and reflect on what enables the WiX Toolset to thrive after all these years...

04/05/2024

As anybody following this blog knows, today, 5-April-2024, is an exciting day! Obviously, it's the -39th anniversary of Star Trek First Contact Day, when humans and Vulcans first meet. I'm not saying I dressed up, but...oh, right, it's also the +20th anniversary of the first open-source release of t...

04/02/2024

Today's meeting happens only a week after our last one, a jarring change from our usual fortnightly schedule. It was for the good reason that we wanted a final checkpoint before our release of WiX v5 on Friday. Did we need that checkpoint? Were awful, recall-class bugs reported in the last few days?...

03/29/2024

As we approach WiX v5's release -- still scheduled for next Friday, 5-April-2024, the 20th anniversary of WiX's first open-source release way back in the olden times of 2004 -- it's time to ship some updates of FireGiant's leading WiX tools: HeatWave and HeatWave Build Tools.

03/27/2024

After a weekend recovering from another heroic effort to keep WiX users safe, we're back to discuss what's in those releases and what's coming up in our next release, less than two weeks away. Join us for an earlier-than-fortnightly meeting next Tuesday, 2-April, for a final checkin before the sched...

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