Steven Gum

Still waiting for step 1. Moving to R9.

This is still underway, we are still expecting the service to support this configuration in R9.

Blocked until stable release of `azure-mgmt-botservice` is released... @DDEfromOR FYI

https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/pull/16694 will bump the version of the `azure-mgmt-botservice` SDK in Azure CLI. With this bump, the Azure CLI wire-up is the only piece missing before developers can manage the Direct...

Needs to be triaged and a parent issue created...

One drawback is that Azure apparently doesn't set NODE_ENV when you specify Node.js as the stack runtime on code-approach Web Apps. However, using NODE_ENV is the norm for Node developers,...

That sounds reasonable and could be easily addressed by using a BF-specific environment variable that defaults to the language-specific environment variable. ``` const { SIDECAR_TRACING, NODE_ENV } = process.env; //...

Let's loop @joshgummersall in on this discussion. At the moment it seems like a spike/implementation will be done in botbuilder-js first, so he might have some valuable insight/pointers on JS/TS-specific...

@unsupervisednn @BurtHarris, it looks like the build is failing because the CI uses Node.js v6. Specifically, `gulp-typescript` relies on `source-map` which requires Node.js 8+. ([gulp-typescript#584](https://github.com/ivogabe/gulp-typescript/issues/584), permalink to [`engines`](https://github.com/ivogabe/gulp-typescript/blob/b01326a77347520f1a24a877e3305ae272a1b432/package.json#L63-L65)) The README.md...

Adding @Shameeritc and @victorlamana as FYI @victorlamana I believe the issue you originally referenced is microsoft/botframework-composer#8249, correct?