Tao of The BuildMeister

The Tao of The BuildMeister is a set of guidelines governing good practices for software builds.

1. Source Control and Builds
   1. Everything required to create a runnable application must be present in source control.
   2. All builds shall be performed by the build system, not on a developer workstation.
2. Deployments
   1. Only files used at runtime are to be present on deployment environments.
   2. Deployments should be performed from a build system output location not from a developer workstation