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ROR team development process and review culture — PR preparation conventions, changelog format, review etiquette, task lifecycle. Use when preparing/reviewing PRs or managing Jira tasks for ReadonlyREST.

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ROR Development Process & Review Culture

Source of truth: beshu-tech/readonlyrest-internal/development_guide.md. This skill distills the parts that govern PRs and reviews.

Preparing a PR (binding conventions)

  • Branch name carries the Jira number: bugfix/RORDEV-302, feature/RORDEV-xxx
  • PR title: [RORDEV-NNN] short description
  • PR description starts with a changelog phrase in the release convention — emoji style, client perspective, copy-paste ready (leave blank for purely internal changes):
    • 🚨**Security Fix** (ES) search template handling fix
    • 🚀**New** (ES) 7.9.0 support
    • 🧐**Enhancement** (ES) full support for ES Snapshots and Restore APIs
    • 🐞**Fix** (KBN) fix crash in error handling
  • Pipelines must pass. Set the next pre-version before opening the PR.
  • PRs are squash-and-merged into develop; master carries stable versions only (mechanics: see the ror-release skill; internal architecture: ror-internals).
  • New ES version support: PR must come from the main repo (not a fork — ES_S3_UP needs S3 credentials). The step that actually gates CI build/test is ci/supported-es-versions/es{N}x.txt (read by ci/run-pipeline.sh) — NOT ci/upload-es-artifacts.sh (a separate, all-commented manual upload step). Full checklist: ror-release skill, "Supporting a new ES version".

Review culture (the core rule)

No comment goes unanswered before the next review round or merge. A thumbs-up suffices; an elaborate disagreement is fine — anything that proves the submitter saw it. Once answered, the comment's author resolves the thread if happy with the outcome. Click GitHub's request review for each review iteration.

Code placement & testing

  • ES-independent shared code → core module
  • ROR core change → unit test; ES-coupled change → integration test
  • Test suites are organized per ES API, not per ROR feature (IndicesAPISuite ✅, AuthRuleSuite ❌)

Task lifecycle (Jira: RORDEV board)

Workflow:

  1. Analysis (always first): reproduce BUGs — flag in Jira if >8h; design-check FEATUREs.
  2. Estimate in hours in Story point estimate (skip if <16h; INVESTIGATIONs report progress every 24h instead).
  3. Implementation → testing → PR → review.
  4. Customer notification.
  5. Close: PR link in Jira, move to DONE.

Rules:

  • One task in IN PROGRESS at a time.
  • Blocked → ON HOLD with a comment written for someone not involved in the ticket.
  • Tag every task R&D or Support (Support = reactive to a user/customer initiative).
  • Track time in Clockify: [Action] [What] – [Why/Context].

Kibana feature-enablement principles

  1. Never accidentally enable paid features. 2. Users must not lose free features by installing ROR. 3. Customers with both ROR + Elastic licenses keep what they paid for. 4. ROR-incompatible features get disabled or hidden.

Customer notification

After merge to develop, CI uploads binaries to S3 — the developer notifies the reporting user with the build link and asks for a test. Jira tasks begin with REPORT TO: ...; if absent, contact the issue reporter.