DEV_NOTES.md

Developer notes

Hey devs, here are some notes that may be of use to you!

How to build from source

1. Download the latest release or clone the repository.
2. Configure Apache Maven to use GitHub packages
3. Build with Maven mvn -Dmaven.test.skip clean package

Debug WUI

# Open Spring boot
mvn spring-boot:run -Pdebug-server

# Open codeserver
mvn gwt:codeserver -Dscope.gwt-dev=compile -Pdebug-server

# Open codeserver http://127.0.0.1:9876/ and add bookmarks
# Open DBPTK http://localhost:8080 and click the "Dev Mode On" bookmark

Optional: Check Google Chrome "RemoteLiveReload" extension for automatic reloading with spring boot.

How to prepare and release a new version

This release build/deploy method requires gren:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.8/install.sh | bash
source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
nvm install v8.11.1
npm install github-release-notes -g

Before releasing

1. Make sure the dependencies are installed by running gren
2. Security check: mvn com.redhat.victims.maven:security-versions:check
3. Update check: ./scripts/check_versions.sh MINOR
4. I18n check: ./scripts/check_i18n.sh

Releasing a new version

Example release new 2.2.0 version (up from 2.1.0) and prepare for next version 2.3.0

1. Run ./scripts/release.sh 2.2.0
2. Wait for GitHub action build to be finished and successful
3. Review release and accept release:
   1. Review issues
   2. Accept release
4. Run ./scripts/prepare_next_version.sh 2.3.0