UCF Developer Contributing Projects Conventions Guide
- Give issue at least two labels
- Milestones: If you know the release milestone it should be under, use that. If it's a wishlist "someday" type of feature assign the "On Hold - Future Release Issues" milestone. Otherwise leave it blank and the project managers will assign it as desired.
- Project: Leave blank
- Only work on issues in the upcoming release milestone.
- Exception: If the upcoming release milestone has no unassigned issues you can work on features in the next release milestone.
- Make sure to assign yourself to the issue that you're working on. If you abandon the issue remove yourself as the assignee.
- Pull requests should be created from your fork.
- Assign the base to the dev branch for the release you're working on.
- In the description write "Fixes #IssueNumber" on the first line if this PR will fix an issue.
- Assign "ucfopen/obojobo-next-devs" as the Reviewer
- If you've addressed a PR review and are ready for a re-review, hit the rotating circle icon next to the obojobo-next-devs user in the Reviewers column.
- Pull requests typically will only be merged in if all tests pass and they have two approved reviews.
- Exceptions apply for hot fixes or critical issues.
Releases are held in three week sprints:
- Week 1: Development begins on a new release.
- Week 2: Development on the release continues.
- Week 3: This week is focused on testing and reviewing. During this week we'll publish the new release and update UCF's production server with the final tagged release. Early in the week there's a "Bug Safari" - a 30-45 min meeting where everyone concurrently attempts to break the latest dev copy of the release and find bugs. If bugs are found they're added as issues, and if there are any critical show-stopper bugs then all development is focused on fixing those before the release.
During each sprint week there is a cohort meeting to see what everyone is working on as well as to direct what staff should be working on (such as needing more PR review, needing to focus on a specific issue, etc). Ideally these take place Monday or Tuesday of that week.
