DeveloperGuidlines

This is a non-exhaustive growing collection of general developer guidelines.

Continuous Integration

We're using Jenkins for Continuous Integration of all release branches and master. Please make sure you don't break the builds.

URL: http://jenkins.eox.at

Version upgrade

Any changes, extensions, additions, etc. that need consideration when upgrading EOxServer versions shall be added to #134, particularly database schema changes (cf. #168).

Committing to the EOxServer GIT repository and pushing to GitHub

• All changes committed to git shall be supplemented with an informative description of the changes at commit time.
• In addition, any commits which include a change in the DB schema, and therefore requiring a DB migration after an upgrade, shall clearly indicate such a change.
  • The phrase "DB-CHANGED-" shall be placed at the beginning of the description.
  • Schema and data migration management is handled using South see data migrations documentation
  • This will allow (if reviewed beforehand) to prepare for the needed DB migration (DB dump, etc.) before upgrading from the repository.