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# Development Policies
- Docker image references by tag are server-mutable, therefore using them is an
RCE vulnerability. All docker image references must use cryptographic hashes
to securely specify the exact image that is expected.
- Correspondingly, `go install` commands using things like '@latest' are also
dangerous RCE. Whenever writing scripts or tools, ALWAYS specify go install
targets using commit hashes which are cryptographically secure.
- Every repo with software in it must have a Makefile in the root. Each such
Makefile should support `make test` (runs the project-specific tests),
`make lint`, `make fmt` (writes), `make fmt-check` (readonly), and
`make check` (has `test`, `lint`, and `fmt-check` as prereqs), `make docker`
(builds docker image).
- Every repo should have a Dockerfile. If the repo contains non-server software,
the Dockerfile should bring up a development environment and `make check`
(i.e. the docker build should fail if the branch is not green).
- Platform-specific standard formatting should be used. `black` for python,
`prettier` for js/css/etc, `go fmt` for go. The only changes to default
settings should be to specify four-space indents where applicable (i.e.
everything except `go fmt`).
- If local testing is possible (it is not always), `make check` should be a
pre-commit hook. If it is not possible, `make lint && make fmt-check` should
be a pre-commit hook.
- If a working `make test` takes more than 20 seconds, that's a bug that needs
fixing. In fact, there should be a timeout specified in the `Makefile` that
fails it automatically if it takes >30s.
- Docker builds should time out in 5 minutes or less.
- `main` must always pass `make check`, no exceptions.
- Do all changes on a feature branch. You can do whatever you want on a feature
branch.
- We have a standardized `.golangci.yml` which we reuse and is _NEVER_ to be
modified by an agent, only manually by the user. It can be copied from
`~/dev/upaas/.golangci.yml` if it exists at that location.
- When specifying images or packages by hash in Dockerfiles or
`docker-compose.yml`, put a comment above the line and show the version and
date at which it was current.
- For javascript, always use `yarn` over `npm`.
- Whenever writing dates, ALWAYS write YYYY-MM-DD (ISO 8601).
- Simple projects should be configured with environment variables, as is
standard for Dockerized applications.
- Dockerized web services should listen on the default HTTP port of 8080 unless
overridden with the `PORT` environment variable.
- The `README.md` is a project's primary documentation. It should contain at a
minimum the following sections:
- Description
- Include a short and complete description of the functionality and
purpose of the software as the first line in the readme. It must
include:
- the name
- the purpose
- the category (web server, SPA, command line tool, etc)
- the license
- the author
- eg: "µPaaS is an MIT-licensed Go web application by @sneak that
receives git-frontend webhooks and interacts with a Docker server
to build and deploy applications in realtime as certain branches
are updated."
- Getting Started
- a code block with copy-pasteable installation/use sections
- Rationale
- why does this exist?
- Design
- how is the program structured?
- TODO
- This is your TODO list for the project - update it meticulously, even
in between commits. Whenever planning, put your todo list in the
README so that a separate agent with new context can pick up where you
left off.
- License
- GPL or MIT or WTFPL - ask the user when beginning a new project and
include a LICENSE file in the root and in a section in the README.
- Author
- @sneak (link `@sneak` to `https://sneak.berlin`).
- When beginning a new project, initialize a git repo and make the first commit
simply the first version of the README.md in the root of the repo.
- For Go packages, the module root is `sneak.berlin/go/...`, such as
`sneak.berlin/go/dnswatcher`.
- We use SemVer always.
- If no tag `1.0.0` or greater exists in the repository, modify the existing
migrations and assume no installed base or existing databases. If `>=1.0.0`,
database changes add new migration files.
- New repos must have at a minimum the following files:
- `README.md`, `.git`, `.gitignore`
- `POLICIES.md` (copy from `~/Documents/_PROMPTS/POLICIES.md`)
- `Dockerfile`, `.dockerignore`
- for go: `go.mod`, `go.sum`, `.golangci.yml`
- for js: `package.json`