QUESTION: I plan (hope) to make frequent postings about NBuilder to organize the project and provide a basis for reflection. For xTeamWorks I started a separate blog in anticipation of it becoming a distraction for anyone reading my normal blog. Anticpation is bad (not to mention my arrogant presumption that people read me blog), so I am not doing this for NBuilder, at least not yet. If anyone cares about this, let me know if you would prefer a separate blog for NBuilder or for me to post NBuilder entries on my normal blog. Thanks.

I have the following stories for Iteration 0.

Determine sample project

As NBuilder is a tool for persisting data in applications, I need a sample project.

Setup environment

Setup Source Forge account, build environment, configure change management, etc.

I plan to have this iteration be short (one day). Since I rarely have a whole day to spend on personal projects, I am time-boxing the iteration for 8 hours. In a retrospective, I will monitor my velocity for actual time spent working vs. the time that transpires due to lag between work sessions.

As far as the development environment goes, there are specific tasks / considerations. I will be using MS Visual Studio 2003, NUnit and possible NAnt. I have not used Cruise Control.NET and may look into it. I need to decide about configuration management. To this point, when working on open source projects with .NET, I have used Tortoise and WinCVS to update files. I want to use something that integrates with the IDE, but have not had success setting up Igloo yet to work with SSH. I also have the complication that a lot of my work is done offline, be it on planes or in hotels. I like to use MS Visual Source Safe locally to provide version control when offline. Ideally, I would have source control IDE integration, that I can use with CVS when online and switch to Source Safe when offline. (It would be really nice to synch the incremental checkins from Source Safe to CVS. If anyone has any ideas or experience with this, please let me know. I will be very grateful.