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diff --git a/doc/developer/developer_guide.md b/doc/developer/developer_guide.md index 7ec76714f..fa50de8a1 100644 --- a/doc/developer/developer_guide.md +++ b/doc/developer/developer_guide.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# Who is a Hubzilla developer? Should I read this? +### Who is a Hubzilla developer? Should I read this? Anyone who contributes to making Hubzilla better is a developer. There are many different and important ways you can contribute to this amazing technology, _even if you do not know how to write code_. The software itself is only a part of the Hubzilla project. You can contribute by @@ -11,31 +11,31 @@ _Software_ developers are of course welcomed; there are so many great ideas to i This document will help you get started learning and contributing to Hubzilla. -# Versioning system +### Versioning system The versioning system is similar to the popular semantic versioning but less stringent. Given x.y.z, x changes yearly. y changes for "stable" monthly builds, and z increments when there are interface changes. We maintain our date and build numbers for medium grain version control (commits within a certain date range) and of course git revs for fine grained control. -# Git repository branches +### Git repository branches There are two official branches of the Hubzilla git repo. * The stable version is maintained on the **master** branch. The latest commit in this branch is considered to be suitable for production hubs. * Experimental development occurs on the **dev** branch, which is merged into **master** when it is deemed tested and stable enough. -# Developer tools and workflows +### Developer tools and workflows -## Hub Snapshots +#### Hub Snapshots -The [[Hub Snapshots]] page provides instructions and scripts for taking complete +The [hub snapshots](/help/admin/hub_snapshots) page provides instructions and scripts for taking complete snapshots of a hub to support switching between consistent and completely known states. This is useful to prevent situations where the content or database schema might be incompatible with the code. -# Translations +### Translations Our translations are managed through Transifex. If you wish to help out translating Hubzilla to another language, sign up on transifex.com, visit [https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/red-matrix/](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/red-matrix/) and request to join one of the existing language teams or create a new one. Notify one of the core developers when you have a translation update which requires merging, or ask about merging it yourself if you're comfortable with git and PHP. We have a string file called 'messages.po' which is gettext compliant and a handful of email templates, and from there we automatically generate the application's language files. -## Translation Process +#### Translation Process The strings used in the UI of Hubzilla is translated at [Transifex][1] and then included in the git repository at github. If you want to help with translation @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ view/de/hmessages.po you would do the following. repository, push it to your fork of the Hubzilla repository at github and issue a pull request for that commit. -## Utilities +#### Utilities Additional to the po2php script there are some more utilities for translation in the "util" directory of the Hubzilla source tree. If you only want to @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ works. For further information see the utils/README file. -## Known Problems +#### Known Problems * Hubzilla uses the language setting of the visitors browser to determain the language for the UI. Most of the time this works, but there are some known @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ For further information see the utils/README file. * the early translations are based on the friendica translations, if you some rough translations please let us know or fix them at Transifex. -# To-be-organized information +### To-be-organized information **Here is how you can join us.** |