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This file last updated:Dec 2024

This is the current implementation of the Grand Comics Database, hosted athttps://www.comics.org/ (production) andhttps://beta.comics.org/ (public betafor new features).

See theTechnical section on docs.comics.organd theWiki for more detailed information about how we work and what has been done to date.This file just covers the essentials of branches and code reviews.

Please join thegcd-tech list forhelp and to find out where we could use your contributions:

http://groups.google.com/group/gcd-tech/

We recommend that you useour Docker-based development environment.

You can find manual instructions for various platforms using virtual environments for python in the docs directoryGCD Docs but they aren'tnecessarily up to date. As of September 2023 they should work.

Our primary collaboration space is thegcd-tech mailing list.We use the GitHub code review system for discussing code changes.

Pull requests are welcome, but you might want to poke the mailing list ifno one seems to be paying attention.

This is (generally) the production deployment. For the most part, workshould not be done here directly.

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This is the general-purpose development branch. It is often deployed tothe beta site, and most work should be done here.Special-purpose development branches are based frombeta unless otherwisenoted.

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This branch was for experimental work to refactor the system inseveral stages.

Most of the refactoring work was moved over to the main branch, some double checking needs to be performed if there are remaining ideas.

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We have a first version of a REST API, see thedocumentation.

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The current production code runs on Django 4.2.

This version of the GCD web application was initially written in Python usingDjango 0.96, and rushed into deployment in late 2009 when the prior system'shost crashed after many years of service. Due to both of these facts, thereremain some oddities and things that you would not see in a modern Django system.

Bugs and feature requests are recorded in GitHub's issue tracking system.

If you are unfamiliar with the code, please contact thegcd-tech list before startingto submit fixes.

In addition to the contributors you see within the git log, we'd like tothank Jon Løvstadt for his work developing and running the previous iterationof the GCD web application.