IMAP Developer Guide

Getting Started

• Development Process
• Overview of Cyrus development environment
• GitHub guide
• Compiling
• Installing Cyrus
• Developer Test Environment
• Test Coverage
• JMAP support

System files and Databases

• Namespaces: a developer view

Resources

• Developer Libraries

Releasing

• Releasing Cyrus IMAP - normal releases
  • Prerequisites
  • Order of operations
  • Release notes
  • Pre-release testing
  • Linking up release notes
  • Version tagging
  • Inter-version website consistency
  • Uploading
  • Tell the world
• Releasing Cyrus IMAP - major releases
  • Prerequisites
  • Feature freeze
  • Make sure master is good
  • Forking the new series branch
  • Updating the master branch
  • Github updates
  • Revert anything that's not yet ready
  • Tell the website builder about the new branch
  • First beta
  • Subsequent betas
  • Release candidates
  • Release
  • Post-release
• Releasing Cyrus IMAP - developer snapshots
  • Prerequisites
  • Make sure master is good
  • Mixed-version Cassandane testing
  • lib/imapoptions
  • Release notes
  • docsrc/conf.py
  • check documentation
  • PR and/or commit
  • Tag
  • Tell the world
  • Update this document
• Releasing new builds of ancient Cyrus IMAP versions
  • Introduction
  • Prerequisites
  • Release notes and version update
  • Pre-release testing
  • Cross-pollination of release notes
  • Building the release
  • Finishing up