Fundraising tech

This document should explain or link to everything needed for fundraising tech development.

Rationale
Manage the incoming donation pipeline from Extension:CentralNotice through the CRM and reporting modules.

We do not write banners or run tests, we support the people and software that run them.

History
TODO

Rhythm and code freeze
We have a special yearly window of not deploying major changes to some critical systems starting in the fall, in preparation for the Big English drive. Game on again in mid-January, assuming we haven't emitted a puff of smoke in early December.

This code freeze gives our development an annual cadence, with each season seeing similar types and intensities of work, year-over-year. Any long-running FR-tech project should take this into account.

Documents

 * Definition of Done: Fundraising tech/Definition of Done
 * Onboarding new team members: Fundraising tech/onboarding
 * Team training matrix: Fundraising tech/Training
 * Roles/Responsibilities: Fundraising tech/Roles and Responsibilities
 * User requirements:
 * Specifications:
 * Software design document: Fundraising tech/Components
 * Test plan:
 * Documentation plan:
 * User interface design docs:
 * Schedule:
 * Task management: Phabricator "Fundraising Tech Backlog" tag. More information.
 * Release management plan: Fundraising tech/Deployment
 * Communications plan:
 * Quarterly review documentation: April 2015

Installing the software stack
Much of our toolchain is provided by MediaWiki-Vagrant, here's how to provision and enjoy a new installation. Be aware that this requires about 2GB of memory and lots of processor. Please follow setup instructions at the main MediaWiki-Vagrant page above, but enable the following role before provisioning for the first time:

vagrant enable-role fundraising

Assuming your box builds without error, visit http://payments.wiki.local.wmftest.net:8080/ and the wiki's main page will have links to help you get started. Please note that the wmftests.net subdomain is actually a wildcard DNS that resolves to 127.0.0.1, so if you are running vagrant on a different host than you're browsing from, or if you're offline, you'll need to add hosts entries yourself.

This role also installs CiviCRM, at http://crm.local.wmftest.net:8080/

If you wish to forsake Vagrant and try to do it all the hard way, see Fundraising Tech/Donation Pipeline Setup

Communications
TODO