The best workflow to develop Askbot
I've been using askbot for a while and feel extremely happy with it. However, it comes to a point where I need some customization, for example:
- Change existing Askbot Javascript code
- Add new custom javascript file to the site
- Change some UI-wise feature (add small description to the homepage)
- Add new functionality: add invite to answer feature
- Integrate search with Lucene to search inside comment, uploaded files, etc.
So, my thought is to fork Askbot and develop on a independent source branch myself. I can pull changes from the original source if you have any update later.
In the documentation, you mentioned about setting up a development environment:
python setup.py develop #the develop option will not install askbot into the python site packages directory
but is this the correct way if I want to deploy the source code to production server? (You're using pip install askbot to deploy it to production, which is great, but how can I create the package from the source code in git). Is there any kind of developer guide for kick-starting my askbot development (I'm very new to Python/Django development)?
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I was able to use python setup.py develop both in the local development environment and production server. I have also set up remote git repo at the same production server. My workflow is basically I push my commit to the remote repo then merge into the production code.