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Here is the description, quoted from Bijan’s notice and I quote:

Branching strategy is one of the most important aspects of TFS deployment. The right strategy can lead to optimized team cooperation, increased productivity and a successful adoption. On the other hand, a bad branching strategy can cause frustrations, damage production and derail TFS adoption in an organization. We have therefore put a lot of effort in creating a set of practical guidance to educate our customers and partners and support their VSTS adoption efforts.

Today, we posted the 2^nd major release of the TFS Branching Guide here on Codeplex. Please spread the news and blog about this.

Here is a summary from the Codeplex site. Note the clear focus on the community aspect in this release. TFS Branching Leads (DL on Cc) has subscribed to community post on Codeplex and starts new packages based on requests from our customers and partners in an on-going effort to meet their special branching needs.

Why the 2nd release?

Since the first release, we have received lots of feedback and change requests. Most feedback indicated a desire for a more practical approach to branching compared to the first release which is more theoretical. With that in mind, we decided to reduce the conceptual part and focus on branching practices with Team Foundation Server.

What is in the package?

TFS Branching Guide - Main 2.0
This is the main article which briefly explains branching concepts and introduces 3 levels of the most common branching scenario

TFS Branching Guide - Scenarios 2.0
A collection of less common branching scenarios

TFS Branching Guide - Q&A 2.0
A set of most frequently asked questions with answers

TFS Branching Guide - Drawings 2.0
A set of branching drawings in different formats including a large branching poster

TFS Branching Guide - Labs 2.0
A couple of examples for hands on labs with step by step instruction for practicing the branching scenarios

The Team

This was a great team work with 21 VSTS Rangers, 6 VSTS MVPs. It was actually our first Ranger project with MVPs since we decided to include them in our projects.

Package Leads

James Pickell/Services                                                Main article

Brian Blackman                                                             Q&As

Bill Heys & Ian Ceicys                                                  Scenarios

Brian Randell (MVP) & Sampath Kumar                      Quick starts and Labs

Willy-Peter Schaub & Tina Erwee                                Drawings

Other contributors

Pramod Vasanth, Eugene Zakhareyev(MVP), Bob Jacobs, Caroline Williams, Oliver Hilgers, David Caufield, Gavin Sharpe, John Jacob (JJ), John Scott (NCD MCS), Mike Abrahamson, Pierre Donyegro, Ryan Frazier, Steven Lange, Bob Leithiser, Tony Feissle, Jeff Levinson(MVP)

The TFS Branching community

An important goal for this release is to go beyond just publishing this guide and create a living and ticking community. With your help and contribution, we would like to incrementally grow our libraries for scenarios, Q&As and labs. If for example, you are not able to find a suitable scenario for your branching needs, we encourage you to post a request for a new scenario. This will trigger a small process with a team which owns the development of the new scenario with your cooperation. Your name will then appear as the co-author of that scenario.

Release 2.0 scenarios

The following scenarios are included in release 1:

Single Team Branching Model

Concurrent Hot Fix, Service Pack, and v.Next

Branching by Version Scenario