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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-NZ link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>We’re using FinalBuilder, tho not much anger involved – it just works (well, apart from when it stopped working with SVN due to a change in the format of the results returned by the SVN client, but they soon fixed that and iirc there was a workaround in the meantime, the details of which I forget). </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Anyhoo, the real point I was getting to is that we’ve hooked our FinalBuilder builds into FogBugz which we use for our development case list and involved extending the query axes in FogBugz (with a handful of lines of C# code) to allow us to retrieve release notes entered against development cases with reference to SVN repository versions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This allows our builds to be released with release notes extracted from FogBugz based on which cases have SVN commits since the previous build - a capability that is strangely missing in the SVN integration provided in FogBugz.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>We also have a quite sophisticated parameter driven build script which allows us to use the same script for nightly beta/test builds as well as release builds and which even takes care of things like branching in SVN for us when we embark on a new product version.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Assuming we can find the time to put a presentation together before this event is scheduled, would how we achieved any/some/all of that be something of interest, maybe ?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Richard Vowles<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 6 May 2011 15:58<br><b>To:</b> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List<br><b>Subject:</b> [DUG] Auckland mini-conference<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hi all,<br><br>Embarcadero and us are trying to organize a mini-conference focused around the Delphi community - but where not just Delphi is the focus. I was thinking there is a wealth of experience out there on all sorts of topics - from build, deploy, configuration, testing, tips and techniques, etc. So this is really a call to see if there is anyone in the community who would like to speak/present stuff they do. Damien is coming out from Australia - and he has a 1/2 day of material he can cover - I have asked Embarcadero if we can extend it to a full day and add in content from you guys. Of course, if no-one wants to present, we'll stick with Damien's presentations.<br><br>Personally I'm particularly interested in people who would be using FinalBuilder (the full version - in anger), AQTime or similar for functional testing, and mechanisms for unit testing.<br><br>You can let me know here or privately - keeping the discussion in the open I think would be good as we could narrow down topics or get people who would present together on topics. <br><br>Looking forward to being inundated!<br><br>Richard<br clear=all><br>-- <br>---<br>Richard Vowles, Technical Advisor<br>Developers Inc Ltd<br>web. <a href="http://www.developers-inc.co.nz" target="_blank">http://www.developers-inc.co.nz</a><br>mob. +64-275-467747 <br>twitter. developersinc<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>