Contributing to nextcloud.com website

Please take a moment to review this document in order to make the contribution process easy and effective for everyone involved.

Setup of a local development environment

1. Install Wordpress >= 3.8.1

• Must be in the document root of the webserver (otherwise images won't load :( )
• Enter what you like for site title, admin user and password, none of this is stored in git

2. Setup the repository
3. Clone the repository in a folder of your choice * git clone git@github.com:nextcloud/nextcloud.com next
4. In the wordpress installation in the wp-content/themes folder, create a link to the folder you just cloned the repository in under the name 'next'
5. Activate the theme in Appearance > Themes
6. Import the website content.xml file

• First install the Wordpress Import Plugin (via Tools > Import > Wordpress Import > Install Plugin)
• Select the content.xml file from the repository and click upload
• Select Import

5. Copy over config.php.sample to config.php and adjust settings as necessary (defaults will work just fine for local environments)
6. In Settings > Reading assign a static front page of 'homepage'
7. In Settings > Permalink assign the Post name setting

Development Process

• Fork the repository
• Setup your local development environment using the instructions above, changing the remote origin url
• Submit a pull request to master, on github once the feature/bugfix is complete (this is so we can test it on the staging server)
• After review (usually following one or two thumbs up), a developer will permit the merge into master
• Code will be pulled onto staging.nextcloud.com for testing (this has to be set up still but the goal is to have this work automatically)
• Once the test looks good, staging will be cloned over to nextcloud.com - this is handled by @jospoortvliet or the Nextcloud sysadmins including @LukasReschke

Notes

• Please don't commit straight into the master or live branches, these branches should remain as stable as possible, and changes should be discussed amongst the community.
• If you are chaning SCSS files during development, following command for automatic compilation is recommended:
  • sass --watch [location to scss files]