TFS Admin Tool 1.4 En Route And Wants Your Input
The TFS Admin Tool on Codeplex is about to go through a new iteration to plug some defects and add a few feature enhancements. I am now the primary coordinator external to Microsoft on this and I posted the following on the wiki:
We will be creating a new release whose primary goal is to address work item 18247- "Error with TFS 2008, SQLServer 2008 on Windows 2008" but the release will also include a few additional bug fixes/enhancements that are already in process or that can be fit in within the time box to fix 18247. This time box is as of yet undefined but the delivery target date will be defined within the next week When this release is complete we'll start another iteration to address a larger set of defects and enhancements and will continue on until no one finds value in adding to the tool any longer.
There will be some additional wiki pages added to assist in planning and current discussions that have kicked off this effort will be moved to that location and to inside the forum for wider participation. Speaking of wider participation, I would like to invite anyone and everyone to contribute. Right now the best mechanism is grab the code, make the contribution you'd like and upload a patch. I want to get much wider contribution. There are a lot of users out there and a lot of scenarios and a lot of people with good stuff to contribute. So send it on.
Please blog/tweet/*cast/yell that we are actively taking contributions and requests and tell everyone to "come on in the water's fine". Keep a close eye on the discussion area of this project. We'll be adding some wiki pages but a lot will begin in the discussion forum.
A part of my goal is to meet the immediate needs, reduce defects in the product and actively get it moving forward for a real V2 product. So… blog it, tweet it, yelp it, Facebook it, *cast it, do everything you can. I want to hear the feature requests, I want you to submit your code for new features for the product. Bring it on and you can not only demand the features you need but provide the code as well.
I hope we see many more contributors and want as much transparency and to be as community driven as possible. I think there a lot more people that could contribute than do. There are about 50 downloads a day so there should be plenty of feedback available and I know there are plenty of people that would like to hack up some code.
Check the discussion forums on the site and watch for the 1.4 release to be relatively soon.