Development

Information for people interested in contributing to the development of the VIVO software. For information on installing VIVO, see the Install Guide for your version.

The Basics

• VIVO is a Java application.  You can find its source code at GitHub.  VIVO apps and tools are written in many languages.
• VIVO has Email Lists you can join to post questions, and hear from other developers
• The VIVO Project holds Implementation Calls– Thursdays at 1 pm US eastern time, open to all.  These are the great venue for learning more about the project, hearing from other developers.
• VIVO uses JIRA for issue tracking.  You will need a Duraspace account to submit issues. Click here to get an account.
• VIVO Vagrant provides a development environment for deploying and testing code changes.
• And there's more information available in this section of the wiki.  See Getting Involved in Development.

Roadmap Process

The VIVO roadmap process is an open, community-based process for identifying features for development.  See VIVO Roadmap Process

Guides for developers

• Trunk, Branches and Tags
• Contributing code with a fork, branches, and pull requests
• Ant Build Commands for VIVO and VITRO
• Re-using VIVO data in other websites
• SPARQL Resources
• Resource: Training
• Workshops & Tutorials#2012
• Building VIVO in 3 tiers

Additional Resources

• Getting Involved in Development
• VIVO Developer Setup 101
• Contributing code with a fork, branches, and pull requests
• Trunk, Branches and Tags
• The Developer Panel
• Creating automated acceptance tests with Selenium
• VIVO in Eclipse
• Sprints