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===============
Developer Guide
===============

This page is for people who wish to contribute code to this project.

Developer Setup
---------------
Check out the source from head, switch to the source code's root directory, then run:
  python setup.py develop
  
That will set up this project's src directory in the easy-install.pth file in site-packages.

Release Process
---------------

Checklist:
 #. All newly-added code has a unit test
 #. All tests pass cleanly (or have good reasons for not passing)
 #. Change setup.cfg to have the appropriate tag ('dev', for example, or '' for a stable release)
 #. Change setup.py to have the appropriate version number
 #. All changes checked in
 #. pep8 runs without much complaint
     * pep8 --ignore=E501,W601 --repeat model.py

 #. pylint runs without much complaint
     * pylint --disable-msg=C0103,R0904,R0913,C0301,W0511 cmislibtest.py

 #. Inline comments updated with changes
 #. Sphinx doc updated with changes
 #. Docs built cleanly
     * cd src/doc/src/
     * make html

 #. Setuptools build
     * python setup.py bdist sdist
     * Use release script to sign files

 #. Copy files to Apache, start vote
 #. If vote passes, copy files to Apache dist
 #. Upload files to Pypi
 #. Tag the release in Subversion
 #. Check the `cheesecake <http://pycheesecake.org/>`_ score
     * python cheesecake_index --name=cmislib