I just installed Win 8.1 with Visual Studio and would like to get a dev device 
for testing if possible.
-James Jong

On Feb 5, 2014, at 6:53 PM, Olivier Bloch (MS OPEN TECH) <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> I'd be more than happy to provision some WP8 dev devices.
> Please let me know who would need one (I am not sure how many I can get but 
> will do my best) and didn't already get one at last phonegap day 😊
> Note that having actual devices for testing do not prevent from having to 
> install Visual Studio and the WP SDK. Also you can make the emulator work 
> within a VM.
> I am working with Mike Sierra on getting the WP and Windows platforms doc 
> updated with instructions on how to get this to work.
> 
> Olivier
> 
> Sent from Windows Mail
> 
> From: Tommy-Carlos Williams<mailto:[email protected]>
> Sent: ‎Wednesday‎, ‎February‎ ‎5‎, ‎2014 ‎2‎:‎16‎ ‎PM
> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> 
> Andrew,
> 
> Didn’t you get a phone at PhoneGap Day?
> 
> Were you too much of a “presenter” at the workshop to get one? ;)
> 
> If I ever get around to getting set up for WP8 I will try and help test… will 
> probably happen after I finish our Blackberry10 port.
> 
> - tommy
> 
> On 6 Feb 2014, at 9:00 am, Andrew Grieve <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Just to be clear - it's not enough to test on windows, this breaks only for
>> windows phone / win8 I think.
>> 
>> That said, I've recently got set up with VMs and modern.ie. Is that enough
>> to test out Hello World on a WP emulator?
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Michal Mocny <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> First off, Jesse I appreciate your respectable tone here, thank you.
>>> 
>>> I agree, this is a sign that we generally don't test nearly enough on
>>> windows, and should fix that.  As someone who also reviewed the work Mark
>>> was doing here, sorry this wasn't caught.
>>> 
>>> I'll just add that I think the tests should have been run before the
>>> *tooling release* (and even better, on a regular basis with CI as stated),
>>> not necessarily before every patch to tip of tree lands.  The majority of
>>> changes do not affect specific platforms in subtle ways -- and while we
>>> should absolutely have process to catch those that do -- any process that
>>> involves manually testing in multiple configurations for every single patch
>>> is prohibitive and I think unrealistic.
>>> 
>>> That change was committed a month ago -- how did we not catch it before
>>> release?
>>> 
>>> To decrease the odds of this happening again, perhaps we need to amend the
>>> steps for tooling release (
>>> http://wiki.apache.org/cordova/StepsForToolsRelease) to ensure testing on
>>> all the platforms?
>>> 
>>> -Michal
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Jesse <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I would think it would be enough to just make sure that :
>>>> 1. our tests catch the issue
>>>> 2. the tests are run on windows/mac/linux before an npm publish
>>>> 
>>>> I agree Mark, the change is valuable, and I don't mean to single you
>>> out. I
>>>> am just concerned about how it made it to npm while obviously broken on
>>>> windows devices.
>>>> 
>>>> @purplecabbage
>>>> risingj.com
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Mark Koudritsky <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Some CI for plugman and CLI on Windows would be extremely useful. I
>>> just
>>>>> looked briefly at Travis-CI<
>>>>> http://docs.travis-ci.com/user/getting-started/>,
>>>>> but they only have Linux and OS
>>>>> X<http://docs.travis-ci.com/user/osx-ci-environment/>.
>>>>> Here is a random Windows based service I just found
>>>>> http://www.appveyor.com/,
>>>>> didn't check if it's usable for our case. Of course, this solution
>>> would
>>>>> only be for the host side tools, not for on-device tests which are the
>>>> most
>>>>> important ones.
>>>>> 
>>>>> That commit was part of this review
>>>>> <https://reviews.apache.org/r/15775/> dealing
>>>>> with CB-4153 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4153>. But
>>> since
>>>>> the
>>>>> patch (probably prepared with git format-patch) contained two separate
>>>>> commits and the second one didn't have a reference to the bug, there is
>>>> no
>>>>> way to deduce that reference. The lesson for me is to add CB-xxxx:
>>> prefix
>>>>> to each commit message in a series of related commits. The check was
>>>> added
>>>>> to verity that config.xml does look like it's a Cordova related
>>>>> config.xlmbecause with the new --link-to tag a random file named
>>>>> config.xml by chance could be sitting in that www dir.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Steven Gill <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm going to agree with Jesse. That commit should not have made it
>>> out
>>>> to
>>>>>> the wild without a platform tag increase. It is fine to go out for
>>> 3.4.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Either we take the commit out and release the CLI again or we revert
>>>> the
>>>>>> CLI to two versions ago (3.3.1-0.2.0) and focus on getting 3.4.0.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Parashuram Narasimhan (MS OPEN
>>> TECH) <
>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Is there a way we could have a continuous integration process for
>>> the
>>>>> CLI
>>>>>>> too ?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>> From: Jesse [mailto:[email protected]]
>>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 9:54 AM
>>>>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>>>>> Subject: Need to revert a CLI breaking change causing CB-5957
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> WP8+7 and Windows8 users are currently unable to create new
>>> projects
>>>>>>> WP8+with
>>>>>>> the CLI because this commit [1] has shipped.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Here is an issue raised on the subject [2] While I have addressed
>>> the
>>>>>>> issue by adding the namespace to the <widget> tag in the platform
>>>>> create
>>>>>>> templates for the affected platforms, until
>>>>>>> 3.4.0 ships this will continue to break.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I am unhappy about how this landed without discussion, or an issue
>>> in
>>>>>>> jira, but ultimately this is just a symptom of the fact that not
>>>> enough
>>>>>>> people test on WP7+8 and Windows 8.
>>>>>>> Please try to test all platforms before landing changes to
>>>> cordova-cli,
>>>>>>> cordova-plugman and cordova-js or at least tread lightly and try to
>>>>> aware
>>>>>>> of the impact outside of your pet platforms.  I am always available
>>>> to
>>>>>>> discuss possible impacts.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>> Jesse
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> [1]
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> https://github.com/apache/cordova-cli/commit/837e8e367ae4feed4854f9ac95a8e906c893d818
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5957
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> @purplecabbage
>>>>>>> risingj.com
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
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