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Description
In this interview, Principal DevOps Manager Donovan Brown interviews Principal Group Program Manager Aaron Bjork about how the release notes for VSTS are generated for each release.
[00:50] Set the stage
[01:15] Release Notes Page
[02:14] How are they created
[02:40] DoD
[03:12] Not everything requires release notes
[03:53] Feature Flags!
[04:40] Release notes in action
[05:04] Delivery Plans
[06:19] When do we set the flag?
[06:52] When should you write the release notes?
[08:45] How do you find all the release notes?
[09:35] Sprint mails
[11:20] The query of items needing release notes
[12:10] Bringing it all together with Markdown
[13:42] Pull requests
[15:45] Keys to making it work
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The Discussion
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DanRevell Great video, I love these ones that arn't overly polished and show real insight into how teams work. But my biggest take away is seeing Lauren Brose use a emoji on her display name within TFS. Brilliant idea!
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NOOMandFAI2018 ok
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Tarun Reddy An Off-topic Question, Is VSTS Built using C#.Net?
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PerfectPhase Great video, would love to see more of these on how teams use VSTS to do day to day tasks.
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aaronbjork @Tarun Reddy:It's built with lots of different technologies, but the bulk of the code is C#, JavaScript, TypeScript and HTML.
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Tanzrocket I may have missed it in the video but how are the markdown files generated from the query?
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aaronbjork @Tanzrocket: It's manual. We run the query... and copy/paste directly from the field on the work item into a new MD file. We do plan/hope to automate this as well at some point, but it works manually for now.
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Tanzrocket @aaronbjork:Thanks for the reply. Manual is not a problem right now but automated would always be nicer. One thing we are struggling with is the query. How are you filtering your work items to a specific build/release? Are you setting that value manually in a field as well? I would love to be able to query on the linked build but haven't found a way to do it yet.