1. YML per-project (AV project, not VS one), so someone could have "default" appveyor.yml and project-specific appveyor.ProjectName.yml.
2. Overriding certain sections from "default" YML in project-specific YML.
3. YML "includes", or defining common parts for branch-specific configurations.

Discussions:
http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/suggestions/280-cancelling-a-build-should-not-fire-build-failed-notification
http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/suggestions/445-when-we-cancel-the-build

Discussions:
http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/suggestions/463-how-to-create-a-yml-file
http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/suggestions/256-export-yml-from-project-configuration
http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/suggestions/371-it-would-be-wicked-if-i-could-finish-setting-up-everything-in-the-ui-and-then-export-my-settings-as-an-appveyoryml-file

Discussion: http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/questions/409-deploying-to-amazon-elastic-beanstalk

Help:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSToolkitVS/latest/UserGuide/tkv-deployment-tool.html
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/deploy_NET_standalone_tool.html

Source: http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/questions/632-collaborator-notifications

More details here:
http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/problems/783-run-builds-on-new-git-tag

More details here: http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/suggestions/407-deployment-settings

http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/problems/805-appveyorpubxml

http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/questions/627-is-it-possible-to-force-a-rebuild-or-re-test-of-a-failed-build

Example: http://blogs.atlassian.com/2012/04/test-quarantine-continuous-integration-bamboo4/

http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/problems/803-test-runner-uses-server-specific-assemblies-not-project-specific-assemblies

There is currently only one image maintained which is based on Windows Server 2012 R2, so selecting OS on UI and YAML does not take any effect.

The chocolatey cyg-get command doesn't seem to work. Not sure if this is a problem in Cygwin, cyg-get, Chocolatey, or AppVeyor. Anyway, if there is a workaround, people may want to know.

Below is from https://ci.appveyor.com/project/larsbrinkhoff/appveyor-test/build/5

cinst cygwin

Chocolatey (v0.9.8.27) is installing 'cygwin' and dependencies. By installing you accept the license for 'cygwin' and each dependency you are installing.
Cygwin v1.7.32
Downloading Cygwin 64 bit from 'http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe'
Installing Cygwin...
Cygwin has been installed.
Cygwin has finished successfully! The chocolatey gods have answered your request!
PATH environment variable does not have C:\tools\cygwin in it. Adding...
Cygwin has finished successfully! The chocolatey gods have answered your request!
Finished installing 'cygwin' and dependencies - if errors not shown in console, none detected. Check log for errors if unsure.

cinst cyg-get

Chocolatey (v0.9.8.27) is installing 'cyg-get' and dependencies. By installing you accept the license for 'cyg-get' and each dependency you are installing.
cyg-get v1.1.1
Adding C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\cyg-get.bat and pointing it to powershell command C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\cyg-get.1.1.1\tools\cyg-get.ps1

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
d---- 10/22/2014 06:45 cyg-get
cyg-get has finished successfully! The chocolatey gods have answered your request!
Finished installing 'cyg-get' and dependencies - if errors not shown in console, none detected. Check log for errors if unsure.

cyg-get install gcc-core

Get-Command : The term 'cygwinsetup.exe' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\cyg-get.1.1.1\tools\cyg-get.ps1:13 char:20

• $cygwinsetup = Get-Command cygwinsetup.exe

• - CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (cygwinsetup.exe:String) [Get-Command], CommandNotFoundException
  - FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetCommandCommand
  
  

C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\cyg-get.1.1.1\tools\cyg-get.ps1 : Please ensure you have cygwin installed (with chocolatey). To install please call 'cinst cygwin'. ERROR: Cannot bind argument to parameter 'Path' because it is null.
At line:1 char:1

• & 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\cyg-get.1.1.1\tools\cyg-get.ps1' install gcc-c...

• - CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Write-Error], WriteErrorException
  - FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WriteErrorException,cyg-get.ps1
  

https://ci.appveyor.com/project/marscher/jpype/build/job/hkyjib2f4ws3kwc8

Install some kind of watchdog ;-) Sorry, was not my intend to produce even more work

Discussions:
http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/suggestions/391-deployment-notifications
http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/suggestions/451-deployment-success-or-failure-slack-status

When busy OSS projects do a lot of commits and PRs their AppVeyor account's queue is getting overwhelmed with "queued" builds. This is because there is only one concurrent job is currently allowed for free accounts.

There is an idea of "rolling" builds, so the system do not start a new build for each commit, but waits until the build is completed and then queues another build of all check-ins that have not yet been built. This could be done per-branch.

Source: http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/suggestions/411-deployement-to-azure-blob

To get the list of team the user can administer:
https://bitbucket.org/api/1.0/user/privileges

{
    "teams": {
        "group_name1": "admin",
        "group_name2": "admin",
        "group_name3": "collaborator"
    }
}

To get the details of specific group:
https://bitbucket.org/api/2.0/teams/{group_name}

{
    "username": "group_name1",
    "website": null,
    "display_name": "Group Name",
    "uuid": "{b1108c16-1111-4444-94e2-3a9ecfd0abab}",
    "links": { ... }
    "created_on": "2014-10-22T06:00:24.855957+00:00",
    "location": null,
    "type": "team"
}

Usually, to access account NuGet feed a new user account is added. Currently, this user account has read-write permissions on NuGet feed. We need another permission to explicitly allow "write" operations on account NuGet feed. "Administrator" group will have it enabled by default while "User" group not.

• Log timestamps should start from zero
• Add button to toggle timestamps on real-time build log

Discussion: http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/problems/677-xunit-20-support

Discussion: http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/questions/657-email-alert

is a multipurpose build tool for Java - please support it. It just needs to be extracted and put on path. Despite a env variable ANT_HOME has to be set, so it can be run. Thank you!

Discussion: http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/suggestions/449-add-includereferencedprojects-to-nuget-pack-command

Discussion: http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/suggestions/437-external-svn-git-support

Source: http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/suggestions/397-mark-deployable-builds-with-the-branch-that-they-were-built-from

Hi,

hope I'm not missing something, but it seems that x86 JRE or JDK are not available in the virtual machine and manually installing it on every run is a real pain.
Hopefully this will be supported someday.

Allow specifying PR # in this API call:
http://www.appveyor.com/docs/api/projects-builds#start-build

Submitted by: Emeric Fermas

This bug appear since a day.

For a branch named foo/bar:

• Expected:
  git clone -q --branch=foo/bar
• Actual:
  git clone -q --branch=bar

Real-time logging slows down the build with a large number of tests.
Issue reported: http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/problems/767-logging-adaptor-slowing-builds-by-60x

Sample projects:
https://ci.appveyor.com/project/nathanaeljones/resizer/history
https://ci.appveyor.com/project/Haacked15676/octokit-net/build/1.0.204

http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/suggestions/393-retry-build-button-network-errors

We should add another "Email" notification provider that can be configured per project.

Discussions:
http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/suggestions/399-additional-mail-notification-for-mailing-lists
http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/questions/740-configuring-email-notifications-in-appveyoryml

The story: http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/questions/620-environment-vars-with-agent-deployment

More info: http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/questions/620-environment-vars-with-agent-deployment#comment_35143692

More details:
http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/suggestions/379-automatically-build-symbolsnuspec-packages
http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/suggestions/276-auto-creation-of-symbols-and-auto-publish-to-symbol-server
http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/questions/356-handling-symbol-packages-in-deployments

Add new scheduled task to cleanup Azure role temp local storage.

http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/questions/530-deploying-changed-files-only-web-application

Source: http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/questions/283-is-sftp-ssh-file-transfer-protocol-supported

Could be implemented with this library: http://sshnet.codeplex.com/

Discussion: http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/problems/983-assemblyinfo-patching-with-specified-directory-root-fails

It would be nice to have a yml validator for appveyor; it requires trial and error to fix some of the parsing failures, for instance the ps: commands.

Example commits which required a fix to appveyor.yml syntax:
codito/pomito@de34e64
codito/pomito@11f43ca

SSDT project produces .dacpac file containing database schema and other scripts. You can put resulting dacpac file(s) into build artifacts. It's already working today, but it's half of the problem.

We need another deployment provider called SQL Database which accepts .dacpac artifact as a source and SQL Server connection string as destination. This provider will be available during the build and under Environments section. For syncing databases we'd use dbDacFx Web Deploy provider, so there maybe some additional settings controlling its behavior.

Also, in case SQL Server instance is behind a firewall we'd allow specifying remote Web Deploy connection details.

Relevant links:
http://www.iis.net/learn/publish/using-web-deploy/dbdacfx-provider-for-incremental-database-publishing
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh550081%28v=vs.103%29.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sqlserver.dac.dacdeployoptions.aspx
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20972104/right-parameter-setting-to-ignore-data-loss-on-msdeploy-with-dbdacfx-provider
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26248219/msdeploy-3-and-dbdacfx-not-recognizing-parameters-it-claims-it-supports-am-i-mi
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22324576/why-is-my-msdeploy-command-using-the-dbdacfx-provider-spitting-an-invalid-xml-er

Forums discussion:
http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/problems/926-building-ms-sql-server-ssdt-dacpac-deploy-to-azure

Source: SSDT

More details:
http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/questions/499-alternative-options-to-skip-a-build

AppVeyor NuGet feeds should support /package-releases/{packageId}?includePrerelease=true|false API that's extensively used by [paket.exe](https://github.com/fsprojects/Paket) utility.

Source: http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/problems/888-unable-to-expand-compilation-messages

http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/problems/807-build-agent-reporting-communicationexception-when-updating-test-results

http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/suggestions/405-mongodb-unit-testing

If there are any PRs in AppVeyor targeting the same "base" branch AppVeyor should trigger builds for those PRs (provided they are open) when "base" branch has updated. This would allow to detect PRs that cannot be merged anymore and require further attention/syncing with upstream.

The current MinGW installation is not complete.

The following code say how to finish it:

echo c:\mingw /mingw>> c:\mingw\msys\1.0\etc\fstab
REM set path=c:\mingw\msys\1.0\bin;c:\mingw\bin;%path%

Problem: solutions can have multiple .nuspec files per solution. Each .nuspec will be used to create a package and push it up to NuGet gallery. AppVeyor currently can't handle this.

Solution: AppVeyor can do the following:

• Check the developer specified location (either in a .yaml file or the settings GUI) for 1+ nuspec files. - If nothing found (or no location specified) have a convention that checks for 1+ nuspecs files into the harcoded locations. eg.
  -- \root\*.nuspec
  -- \root\nuspec\*.nuspec
  -- \root\nuspec files\*.nuspec

etc..

Here's an example screen shot I cooked up to help explain this...

thanks!