Activity Library/Devel/Building

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This document outlines the build process for AMO.

This system may be expanded to other web properties, but for now it is AMO-specific.

1. Alert IT of upcoming push at least 24 hours in advance
   • If pushing core changes (anything not look/feel) file an IT Request to load test
2. Freeze code if not already done
3. Checkout trunk
4. Within trunk, cd bin and `./build.sh path_to_jre`
   • If jre is installed on your system (khan has it), path_to_jre should be `which java` (with backticks).
   • If not you should download a copy of jre from http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp and use the path to the java binary (example: `./build.sh ../../jre#.#.#_##/bin/java`)
   • This file will do the following (in order):
     • Check the latest revision of trunk, the css files about to be compressed, and the js files about to be compressed
     • Write these to ../site/app/config/revisions.php as REVISION, CSS_REVISION, and JS_REVISION
     • Concatenate and minify jquery-compressed.js and addons.js into jquery.addons.min.js
     • Concatenate and minify type.css, color.css, screen.css, and print.css into style.min.css
     • Recompile all .po files (make sure there are no errors from this!)
5. Check all modified code from ../site/ back into SVN
6. Update the production external (/tags/prodexternal) with the current revision as per instructions in the SVN Guidelines
7. File an IT Request to push to production with the desired time.