Policies for core releases and commits

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Last updated: Jun 22, 2021 by Martin Rasser
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What is this article for

This article addresses core ConfigBox developers and designers. It gives orientation on releases, breaking changes and VCS commits.

Major and minor releases

Major releases come out every 12-18 months and are allowed to have breaking changes to customizations. Numbering is 3.x, 4.x etc.

Within minor releases, there cannot be breaking changes to customizations. Pay special attention to these things:

  • Custom styling and calls to JS AMD module methods

  • Template overrides

  • Custom views

  • Wording overrides in custom language files

  • Public methods of core models, Kenedo framework classes and CB's static helper classes

Note: In case a new feature's value or considerably better code organisation warrants a breaking change within a major release, then discuss advantages and alternatives with your head developer. When you got the go-ahead, prepare a useful doc for 3rd parties - explaining what they gotta do to resolve the Breaking changes. This doc will eventually be on the Breaking Changes Page. For the breaking changes page, you must write a concise description and straight-forward instructions on adapting their customizations.

Commits to VCS

  • On feature development that take more than a week, you create a branch and merge into master on completion.

  • Mention the feature you worked on in the commit. As of now there are no task or ticket numbers, use concise and meaningful comments useful for colleagues.

  • On changes to CSS and JS, commit the minified versions as well (Use YUI compressor or CSSO CSS Optimizer for CSS and Closure Compiler for JS via PHPStorm's File Watchers).

  • Assets are served with Far Future Headers even on development and Kenedo adds a cache busting query string on resource URLs. See this article.

  • Use your browser's cache disabling feature.

  • In the CB settings at 'Analysis and Debugging' you can turn off use of minified CSS and/or JS and also turn off the use of the cache-busting query string

  • In customization projects, you find a file getReleaseNumber.php in the customization folder in 'system_overrides'. Bump up the version number on any commit that has changes to assets.