# General Information

## Task for today.

I'll prompt you on the task for today.

## Version Control

### General Info

This project is versioned in the Public Depot P4 Server. The P4CONFIG file setting points to a file with required settings and reference to authentication/credentials files.

### Starting a Session

At the start of each session, use 'p4 login -s' to ensure a valid ticket is available. Notify me if not.

### Interacting with P4 Jobs

P4 Jobs are used for this project.  The jobs used to manage this project are prefixed with J2J-, and are unrelated to the SDP jobs prefixed with SDP- that the sync_jira_to_p4jobs.sh manages.  The J2J- jobs are P4 jobs, not associated with JIRA.

Load the shell environment functions to interact with jobs:

  cd ../tools/dev_env.sh
  source ./dev_env.sh

To create a new job, use the 'njob' alias.

  njob <Type> <Descriptin>

Type values are:

* 'B' is 'Bug'
* 'D' is 'Doc'
* 'F' is 'Feature'
* 'P' is 'Problem' - a suspected bug for which the issue or cause isn't well understood.

Sample:

  njob F "Your Description goes here."

IMPORTANT: Use 'njob' (or equivalent) and trust that the automated P4 job numbering mechanism will "just work," incrementing the nunber after the J2J- prefix.  (This is not default P4 Server behavior; the JobIncrement trigger enables this behavior to combine a JIRA-like issue prefix with an incremented numeric identifier.)

To list open jobs, use the 'ojobs' alias.