Interview with Aaron Bjork (Release Notes)

The Discussion

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  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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  ok

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  An Off-topic Question, Is VSTS Built using C#.Net?

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  Great video, would love to see more of these on how teams use VSTS to do day to day tasks.

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  @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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  I may have missed it in the video but how are the markdown files generated from the query?

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  @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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  @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.

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  @tanzrocket, is this functionality still in Azure DevOps? How do you add the deployment flag to the features template?

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  @aptivadave: I would start here with Process customization. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/reference/?view=azure-devops

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  @Donovan:
  I'm demoing Bravo Notes to generate my release notes, but are there any plans on adding Release Notes Generation into Azure DevOps. If not, is the team there at Microsoft still compiling these notes in a manual process or using a tool like Bravo Notes?