Development

These are the documents you should be familiar with if you intend to do Bricolage development. It’s not as overwhelming as it looks: Just start with something simple and work your way up!

• Community: Mail lists, IRC, etc.

• Working with Git: This will get you set up with a GitHub account, fork the project, and clone it to your local disk.

• Contributing a Bug Fix: Takes you through the basic steps to fix a bug in the master branch :formerly called trunk and push it up to GitHub.

• Working with Branches: How to go about working in a maintenance branch, such as rev_1_10.

• Merging with Git: Mostly about merging from a maint branch to master.

• Starting a Project Branch: For those of you who want to undertake some major hacking.

• Build Aliases: Useful shell aliases to quickly and non-interactively rebuild a Bricolage installation.

• Git Hacks: Cool tricks. Please add your own!

• Contributing via Email: In case you don’t want a GitHub account. Needs filling in by someone who actually decides to work this way.

• Creating a Release: How to create and test a tarball, where to upload it, and where to send announcements.

• Coding Standards: For Perl, SQL, in Emacs and Vim.

• Contributing Actions and Movers: Why don’t more people do this?

• Debugging: Tips to debug issues with Bricolage.

• Performance Tuning: Why is Bricolage going slowly? Tips to help you find out.