Planning Doc

[alexieyizhe]

Tools

Tools that web are using:

• React as framework
• Gatsby for generating final product
• Netlify for deploys & forms
  • Just found out Netlify's free tier only offers 100 submissions/month, is this going to be a problem? Consult marketing/last year's web manager about this
• Google Analytics for website metrics

Goals

1. Clean up and reorganize Github organization
   • Consistent, meaningful repositories
   • Maintain history of previous year's codebases
   • Proper project management practices
2. Follow good practices
   • Code reviews
   • Document stuff
3. Build something cool
   • Use tech that we're unfamiliar with to learn
   • Build maintainable stuff

Timeline

1. Finishing coming soon placeholder website
2. Finishing main website with all the details/info
   • Possibly 2 versions, one without theme and one with theme
3. Finish live website for day of
   • Push notifications
   • Schedule
   • Map?

Best Practices

• The master branch must always be in a stable deployable publishable state
• Never push directly to master
• Do all work on branches created from master
• When creating branches, label them with {feat|fix|misc}/{descriptive_name}