What to treat as 'source'

[Michael Powell]

Hello,

Perhaps a general CMS related topic... What (necessarily, 'how') do we treat as source code? If we have a Django or an OrchardCore/CMS, for example. The infrastructure, obviously, i.e. the framework, intermediate derivations, etc. What about any authoring efforts, milestones, versioning, etc? Similarly, where/when are the authoring efforts usually done? As part of 'dev' inner loop? Or might there also be an author inner/outer loop? Then with whatever corresponding database backups, migrations, etc.

Thank you...

Best regards,

Michael W. Powell

[Shaheed Haque]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2022 at 00:16, Michael Powell <mwpow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Perhaps a general CMS related topic... What (necessarily, 'how') do we treat as source code? If we have a Django or an OrchardCore/CMS, for example. The infrastructure, obviously, i.e. the framework, intermediate derivations, etc. What about any authoring efforts, milestones, versioning, etc? Similarly, where/when are the authoring efforts usually done? As part of 'dev' inner loop? Or might there also be an author inner/outer loop? Then with whatever corresponding database backups, migrations, etc.

I think of it like this:

- Starting with "If I were to try to do a release of my product, what
files would I need?"
- Subtract, or rather separate out, any credentials since live
credentials won't be in checked-in source.
- Add in any files and artefacts needed to run tests.
- Add in anything needed to deploy the product.
- Add in any source for documentation, either customer facing or
internal specs/procedures.
- Some special consideration may be needed for large binary objects.

All that belongs in the source control system, meaning that it is
backed up along with development history/comments. Note that this is
essentially independent of whether the product is software: it could
just as easily be the design for an ASIC, or a marketing website.

End-user data is NOT part of the source (it should be backed up of
course, but not in the source control system).

Does that help?

Thanks, Shaheed

> Thank you...
>
> Best regards,
>
> Michael W. Powell
>

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