development_process.md

Development process

1. Find a ticket from the top of To Do column on Active Development (Kanban board)
2. Assign it to yourself
3. Move it to In progress
4. Create a feature branch off master
5. Do the work
6. Get all tests green locally
7. Push branch to origin, eg. git push -u origin my_feature_branch
8. Check automated tests for branch pass (no conflicts, CircleCI, RuboCop)
9. Create a PR
10. Move ticket to Needs review on Kanban board
11. Get PR reviewed and approved
12. Merge down to master
13. Discuss if it's a reasonable time to merge to staging
14. Merge to staging
15. Move ticket to Awaiting QA on Kanban board
16. Communicate with team about test plan for new stuff on staging
17. Move tickets to QA Accepted on Kanban board
18. Release manager checks with team that we're good to promote staging to production
19. Merge staging to production
20. Create a tag, Eg. git tag -a v5.0.3 -m 'An annotated tag'
21. Go into semaphore and do a manual deploy
22. Sanity check on production that core flows work, and review features
23. Release manager moves tickets from QA Accepted to Released
24. Delete feature branches once they are in the tag