Tech.churchofjesuschrist.org

2015-01-07T18:39:13Z

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Any tasks or issues relating to any of the community tools found at tech.lds.org, such as Joomla, Forum, Wiki, Jira, or Subversion.
; '''Summary'''
; Project Manager : Dennis Keating
; Dev Lead : Tim Riker
; Meeting Schedule:
: Mon, Wed, Thurs, Fri. 9:30am-9:45am mst
: Tues, weekly staff meeting 10am-11am via VIDYO

==Purposes of tech.lds.org==
Many people know of the resources for ward clerks and technology specialists on tech.lds.org. The forum and wiki contain myriad conversations and a knowledge base for technology related ward and stake issues that cannot be found anywhere else. Tech.lds.org is an indispensable resource to those seeking technology support in their demanding and difficult callings.

Tech.lds.org also serves as an avenue to facilitate community participation in development of Church technology projects. The Church has many technology [[Community_Projects|projects]] to complete to meet the needs of an ever-growing, world-wide church. The Church seeks the help of the tech.lds.org community with this tremendous undertaking.

==Project Objectives==
The purpose of this project is to continue to improve the '''self-support''' services provided through tech.lds.org. It is also to expand the ability to '''partner''' with the tech.lds.org community on Church technology projects.

===Self-Support===
The '''forum and wiki''' are the tools for '''self-support''' on the site. The wiki provides a codified knowledge base for officially approved uses and scenarios for Church related technology. In the forum, users can post questions and get answers from other forum users. They can also search previous remarks from users. Problems that aren't answered in the wiki can be researched in the forum.

===Community Involvement===
The Church invites participants to review the list of [[Community_Projects|projects]] and '''volunteer''' where they have time and inclination.

==Community Collaboration==
Tech.lds.org provides a collection of tools, held together by glue and sawdust, to enable community collaboration.

===Issue Tracking===
'''JIRA''' is used to track issues on community projects. After joining a project users will have access to that project in JIRA.

===Source Control===
Tech.lds.org currently has source control available with Subversion ('''SVN'''). Git support may be added in the near future. Users have access to the source through the project page. Users do not automatically receive commit access to Subversion, but should contact a project manager to obtain access. Users can create JIRA issues and attach patches to those JIRA tickets.

===Skills Profile===
Users of tech.lds.org can identify which technologies they are comfortable with or interested in learning. This aids project managers in identifying people who will be able to contribute to their project. It is '''not necessary to fill out the skills profile''' to join projects.

===Projects===
The list of available community projects is visible to those who sign the '''contributor agreement'''. Projects are created by sponsors internal to The Church. Community members can join projects they are interested in and participate at a level they are comfortable with. After joining a project, users will be able to comment on and add JIRA tickets related to that project. They'll also be able to submit patches to the project through JIRA. Volunteers can leave a project at any time.

====Contributor Agreement====
Those willing to contribute to Church technology projects must sign the '''contributor license agreement''' before they will be able to start.

===Content Management===
'''Joomla''' is used to manage and maintain the site, the users and the projects.

===LDSTech Development Virtual Machine===
We have created a VirtualBox Appliance that contains functioning instances of the LDSTech web sites so that developers can get started quickly. There are additional details on the [[LDSTech Development Virtual Machine]] wiki page.

==Key Information==
===Communication===

====Weekly Meeting====
An open meeting is held '''weekly on Fridays, 9:30am-9:45am Mountain Time'''.

'''How to Join:'''

Our weekly meeting has been moved to [[IRC]]—Channel: #ldstech
Server: freenode.net (for a U.S. Server: chat.us.freenode.net)

Join using your IRC client, or use the freenode browser interface: http://webchat.freenode.net/

History of IRC Located: http://infobot.rikers.org/%23ldstech/ https://tech.lds.org/irc/%23ldstech/

====IRC====
The preferred method of communication regarding all LDSTech projects is in #ldstech channel on irc.freenode.net. [http://colloquy.info/ Colloquy] is a good IRC client for Mac and [http://www.trillian.im/ Trillian] is a good one for PC. See [[IRC]] for more details.

====Google Groups====
'''Announcement group''' https://groups.google.com/a/tech.lds.org/group/ldstech-announce

'''Discussion group''' https://groups.google.com/a/tech.lds.org/group/ldstech

'''Commits group''' https://groups.google.com/a/tech.lds.org/group/ldstech-commits

===Source code===
The code for tech.lds.org is available:<br>
https://code.lds.org/svn/ldstech/trunk.

===Issue tracking===
Issues, tasks, and bugs can be found in the LDSTech instance:<br>
https://tech.lds.org/jira/browse/LDSTECH

===Test system===
The dev site: http://cdev.lds.org/ldstech/joomla/

The test site uses [[Coda_Application|CODA]] to provide fake user credentials for testing purposes. http://cdev.lds.org/coda/

The following users exist and can be used for testing. The password is 'password' for all of them.

* aaron
* alonzosl
* bruno
* cholder
* ChungBond
* dowdyls
* HarlandBooker
* ian_lees
* JaneDoe
* JaneyDoe
* JimmyDoe
* JohnDoe
* JohnnyDoe
* kaneyb
* KurtBlunt
* luci
* mata
* motleyte
* nonmember
* Octavio
* olmsteadas
* OToole
* pholder
* PorterBadger
* RusselAdam
* vholder
* Бартли
* 逆さ逆さ
* ♠♥♦♣

===Wireframes===
The old wireframes: https://cdev.lds.org/ldstech/wireframes/

===Internal Team Members===
* [[user:smootar|Alan Smoot]]
* [[user:timriker|Tim Riker]]
* [[user:ekeating|Elder Dennis Keating]]

===Release Steps===
* note current release in case we want to role back
* review required sql patches
* confirm regular mysql backups are working
* short news blurb that upgrade is in progress on home and irc
* backup ldstech directory
* svn up
* apply sql patches
* enter and re-save ldap/talentpool/etc modules in administrator if needed
* test joomla, wiki and forum
* remove or update short news blurb and irc topic
* when all tested, remove backup directory

==Requirements==
* XAMPP - PHP/MySQL Development (or similar) - http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

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