I haven’t been blogging, obviously, in quite a while. It’s time to take this up again.
So first, just a quick rundown of what I’m working on and the current issues of the day.
At home, I have been successful getting Mercurial up and running with IIS 7, though there are still some drawbacks in my current implementation that prevent me from taking what I’ve learned through this experience back to the workplace. I am just using the built-in hgweb.cgi on IIS 7.5 currently, and that implementation does not include some functionality that I think developers would expect, such as being able to create a repository on the server, or even upload an existing repository. I’ll need to address that before I can recommend this for corporate use.
I am also working on setting up an internal NuGet feed and gallery, which is coming along nicely. I finally found a server at work where I can host the gallery and we already have plenty of space reserved for package uploads.
Additionally, I am close to perfecting a build process that will compile, strong name, unit / integration test (while also instrumenting referenced projects for code coverage collection), source index, publish symbols, create NuGet package and publish that, produce documentation via Sandcastle and create installers via WiX projects.
What would really be nice, on top of these capabilities, is a CodePlex/BitBucket/GitHub-like site to serve as a VCS/DVCS-agnostic project community site with Wiki’s, integrated task and defect tracking, activity reports and charts, etc. I have heard about RhodeCode but I’m not sure if it can provide the functionality I need.
