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.. guidelines/development
Development
Development Strategy
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As a solo-project, I am not only the **developer**, but also the **manager**.
Therefore there is a need, if this project is to succeed, to have a development plan.
Defines:
Such a plan should:
- A **unit of work**.
- A **pipeline** for making changes ---should **minimize ambiguity**.
- A way for **distributing work** and **tracking productivity**.
- Define a way to **distribute work** (across time, since there's only 1 developer).
- Define what is a **unit of work** (cycles).
- Provide a way to **track productivity**, which helps projecting the future and **detecting patterns** early on.
- Provide a **pipeline** for the work to go through and **minimize ambiguity**.
An **unpragmatic strategy** is utterly useless. It should pull our minds out from the **engineering dreamland**, and make us focus on the **product delivery**.
These are the **management** aspects of the project, which help the development goals to be more **pragmatic**
---by pulling my mind out of its **engineering dreamland**, and make it focus on the **broader picture**.
.. note::
**Forgejo issues** is used as the project-management tool.
No need for fancy boards or 3rd party apps. Simple tags, titles, milestones, etc... should suffice.
Cycle
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A cycle is one **step** in development, one cycle = one ticket, and it consists of 4 stages:
A cycle is one **step** in development, 1 cycle == 1 issue, and it consists of 4 stages:
1 - Make it known
- Write the commit message.
- Write the commit title.
- This limits the **scope of changes** and gives you a very specific **goal** to work towards.
- If something outside of this scope really bothers you, fix and stash for a future cycle.
- Make a ticket if stash-fix is implausible ---**DO NOT** write **todo** comments.
- The message should follow the project's **commit message specifications**.
- Make a ticket.
- Version control (git) is a **development-tool**, not a **management-tool**.
- Provide a very brief description ---This may be used in the commit message's body.
- Make an issue.
- Git is a **version-control** tool, not a **project-management** tool.
- Preferably, provide a very brief description ---This may be used in the commit message's body.
2 - Make it work
- Write high-level tests that confirms the cycle's requirements are met.
- That is, specify requirements in a programming language instead of English.
- You're done when all the tests pass.
- Preferably write the tests first, but it's okay to start with the interface.
- Tests may not be necessary depending on the requirements and commit type.
- Tests **may** not be necessary depending on the requirements and commit type.
- "Make it work" doesn't mean liberally producing substandard code, you should:
- **Make it work** doesn't mean liberally producing substandard code, you should:
- Follow project's **conventions**.
- Follow **best practices** and **proven swe principles**.
- Enable **warnings as errors**.
- Enable **static analysis**.
- Don't break any pre-existing-tests.
- Have the over-all picture in mind.
- Don't break existing tests.
- Have the overall picture in mind.
3 - Make it right
- Test driven refactoring
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- Get a performance and/or memory profile and try to alleviate the bottlenecks.
- Avoid premature optimizations, be certain what you change has performance benefits.
Sprint
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A sprint is the collection of all the finished cycles in one week.
It's meant to provide insight on development speed and help projecting the future.
A sprint is the collection of all the finished cycles in **one week**.
They start from **Monday mornings**, and end on **Sunday nights**,
where we'll do a **12hr coding marathon** (streamed on Discord) to wrap everything up.
Sprints begin by **defining** what cycles/issues are expected to be done.
And end by **reflecting** on the results, which may **affect** our future approach.
Commit Message Specification
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- For changes to the documentations.
- Does not affect the version.
.. note::
Since we're in beta, any commit might change the api, no need for ! (breaking) tags.
Semantic Versioning
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Coupled with conventional commit style messages, we can automajically version the project following
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The shortened hexsha of a commit is obtained by:
``git rev-parse --short=5 <commit_hexsha>``