What does "makemigrations available for development purposes only" mean?

[Feng Xia]

Hi,

Hope someone has insight and workaround for this.

We are developing a new plugin following the doc. The code is built to a Docker image. Plugin code is outside the `/netbox` folder, and will be mounted into `/netbox/<my plugin>` folder using Docker-compose volume. 

Once the docker is up, I need to run "makemigrations" then "migrate" to initialize DB for my application. That's when I hit this message:

```

CommandError: This command is available for development purposes only. It will

NOT resolve any issues with missing or unapplied migrations. For assistance,

please post to the NetBox mailing list:

    https://groups.google.com/g/netbox-discuss

```

So, what does this mean? Why? and how should I create migrations and migrate for my plugin? Please advise.

Best,

feng

[Feng Xia]

Answering my own question above.

Set `DEVELOPER=True` in `configuration.py`, and `makemigrations` will work as normal.