BeWelcome software development

Welcome to the developer's corner of the first non-profit and open source based travel and hospitality exchange network.

Currently we are working on these 2 projects:

1. BW Rox - the software currently powering  www.bewelcome.org
2.  Welen - a complete rewrite based on  Symfony, currently in planning and research, with some experimental code written

Communication

•  Mailing list - please read DevMailingListRules
• Chat: #bewelcome on irc.freenode.net ( webchat)

Getting started

• Download and follow  INSTALL instructions
• Alternatively, you can use BWbuntu which is ready to go.

Developer pages

• DevelopmentWorkflow - How we branch, commit and release
• DatabaseChanges - Changes to the database since the last update of the development DB snapshot
• Hotfix - Release a hotfix
• MilestoneReleasesHowTo - Release a milestone
• API_brainstorm - Ideas about a BeWelcome API
• DataImport - Ideas on data import from other networks
• Git hints - Using Git in BeWelcome context

Admin pages

• Deployments - Getting code from repository to websites
• ServerSetup - Our server landscape
• TracUserAdmin - Adminster trac users
• TracMaintenance - Database clean-up
• StartSSLcertificate - Get and install a StartSSL certificate
• DeerToPuma - Working page for the current live server migration
• RecreateFromBackup - It's always good to have a plan for the worst case ;)
• BwUserEmailChange - Explains how to change a user's email address
• ServerAdminBasics - A few basic guidelines for server admins

Get a Trac account

Please send an email to the  bw-dev-discussion mailing list.

License

BW Rox is available under the GNU General Public License version 2 or higher.

Page update

This page was rewritten more than a year ago. If you are still missing some information here see the old wiki start page.