Written by: Joe Brinkman
7/5/2008 11:24 AM 

July 4th 2008 marks another milestone in the evolution of DotNetNuke:  For the first time that I am aware of, we have distributed a completely automated build of DotNetNuke.  For the last 5 years Shaun has manually built and packaged every release of DotNetNuke.  For the bulk of those releases, the build occurred on a single machine that Shaun has nurtured throughout the life of DotNetNuke.  Not only was almost every release built on the same  machine, but they were built by Shaun.  Often the build and packaging process took a considerable amount of time which limited the frequency with which builds were released.

A couple of years ago Bryan Andrews had setup a CI server for the project but it was not really used beyond verifying that the project could compile without errors as new code was checked in.  We never used that server for creating the actual release packages.  Over time, the CI process broke down and for the past year or so we have operated without continuous integration.  This spring Bryan worked with Scott Willhite to revive our CI process and to enable us to create fully automated builds.  DotNetNuke 05.00.00 Beta 6 marks the first release to use the new CI server for building and packaging the official release. Beta 6 will not only be an opportunity for testing the latest DotNetNuke version but also for testing the new packaging.

So no longer will the 4th of July just be a celebration of the day America gained it’s Independence, it will also mark the day that the DotNetNuke project gained it’s independence from a manual build process.  Now Shaun can finally retire his old computer to the DotNetNuke Museum where it can take it’s rightful place alongside IBuySpy Workshop, the Techno-Skin and the soon to be retired Blue Skin.

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