Instructions for testers

For developers:

Please confer development workflow about the mode of interaction.

For testers:

Deutsch:

Instruktionen für die Installation auf dem WireGate (andere Plattformen laufen ähnlich, werden aber nicht explizit erwähnt): http://www.cometvisu.org/wiki/CometVisu/HowTo:_Entwicklerversion_auf_dem_WireGate

English:

Installation:

When you want to participate in testing the code, the relevant instructions to get the code and stay current are as follows:

Please create an GitHub account (of course it is possible to download and test the CometVisu without having a GitHub account. But your ability to give feedback would be limited then - and the account is free.)
Please fork the CometVisu to your own account (there's a "Fork" button on the top right of the page)
Then have a look at your page in the CometVisu repository. There's a field named HTTPS clone URL on the right side of the page. Please copy the URL shown there.
Go to the terminal of your machine in the web directory (e.g. by cd /var/www)
Run the command
git clone https://github.com/<Accountname>/CometVisu.git CometVisuGit
where https://github.com/<Accountname>/CometVisu.git is the URL you have copied just above.
Then add the main repository as upstream:
git remote add upstream https://github.com/CometVisu/CometVisu.git
To make it easily accessible in the browser, run:
ln -s CometVisuGitSVN/trunk/src visu_git
To use all features a few file permissions must be updated:
chmod a+rw /var/www/visu_git/config/visu_config.xml
chmod a+rw /var/www/visu_git/config/backup
chmod a+rw /var/www/visu_git/config/visu_config_previewtemp.xml

Congratulations! Your CometVisu installation is now available under the address: http://<your_box>/visu_git/

Updates:

After the successful installation you want to keep up with the development, of course. To understand a bit of the background, you should read the development workflow.

To get the latest updates from the main repository just call
git fetch
To switch to a different development branch you can use
git checkout <branchname>
(don't forget to replace <branchname> by the desired branch name)

To update local changes from you to the main repository please check them into your fork and then create a pull request for the development branch of the main repository (CometVisu/CometVisu).
Please read the necessary instructions for that in your favourite Git documentation. But to give you a hint, the necessary commands will be around
git add .
git commit
git push