Rangers Build Customization Guide – Status Update: ALPHA Release under magnifying glass

We have promised complete transparency … which is why we will briefly give everyone a status update on this exciting project, followed by an update on the Lab Management, Word4TFS and CodedUI projects in subsequent posts.

What’s happening?

We have just published the first consolidated Alpha release of the guidance (available to active team members only), which includes the following Epics:

  • Practical guidance to utilize Team Build process templates to automate build and non-build scenarios
  • Practical guidance to enable simple and flexible deployment of applications and their data stores
  • Practical guidance for Activities to empower developers and build engineers

The Beta release of the guidance (will be available to all Rangers), which should start bubbling up in March, will include revisions to the Alpha content, additional content for the Epics mentioned above and the following Epic:

  • Practical guidance and tooling to simplify the Team Build 2010 "Build" customizations

Early sneak peek of some of the bits

We cannot zoom in too much as we are in Alpha stage, however, you should see that there will be some great nuggets :)

The following is an extract from a breakout session slide, which shows some of the deliverables that are included in the Alpha release:

That’s it for today … I am hoping that I can convince the feature area leads to add their comments to this blog post and share some of their hi and low-lights of this project from their perspective. They are all busy digesting the ALPHA bits and are a passionate bunch of Rangers, so I am expecting comments shortly :)