Projects Manual

h1. Opening a new project

**DO NOT OPEN A NEW PROJECT BEFORE CONTACTING PROJECT ADMINISTRATOR*

*General*

* Anything that requires versioning must be a unique project.

* We use "From general to unique" project policy

To open a new project the following rules must be followed:

*Project Name:* 

Must be unique and to quickly describe the project. It can be a name of a product or product series or quick description eg."Lemco website"

The name of a project must follow the below rules:

* If a project is unique then we just use a descriptive title eg. "Lemco website"

* If a project consists of other entities like Hardware, Firmware, Software then we've the following:

  *Hardware*

   In this case the name of the project could be the name of the main pcb. Eg. DVMOD-84IP  (In this step we must not assing any version number to project name)

  *Firmware*

   In this case the name of the project is: Product or product series name + "-FW" at the end, eg. "Compact Line 2-FW"

   We may have several types of firmware as below:

   MainApp - Which is the main application firmware of the device.

   Webserver - In cases where the webserver and the main app are seperate projects

   Linux - Which is the Linux OS running on the device along with all its applications like uboot etc.

   FPGA - Which is the IP core of the FPGAs. In case of multiple FPGA we add a description name before the word FPGA. eg. "Multiplexer FPGA"

   XXX - Any other firmware that cannot be grouped above. In place of XXX is the description. eg. IT9919-FW

   In this case the sub-firmware project name becomes:  Name of the parent firmware or abbreviation + Type + "-FW" eg. CL2-MainApp-FW

  *Mechanical*

   In this case the name of the project is: Product or product series name + "-MC" at the end, eg. "Compact Line 2-MC"