Project Onboarding

Welcome to Data Generation Toolkit!

New volunteers, we're so glad you're here!

Pair programming or heads-down writing mixed with occasional big picture brainstorming
Zoom rooms on top of zoom rooms
Learning how to use Github and helping each other get unstuck
Take breaks (ok to join a work call if needed)
We encourage you to keep video on (if you are comfortable doing so)
Sense of accomplishment for making PRs against Issues !!!

We, the Data Generation Toolkit project, have two Github repositories:
- The repo you are in NOW is focused on documentation and project management
- For contributors in the Recipes workstream, go to the Snowfakery recipes repo
Besides Sprints, we have monthly meetings to maintain progress on the larger goals for Data Generation Toolkit

these will take some time and you might need some support if you are not familiar with Developer tools. Project members are available to help you

To learn to use CumulusCI to collaborate on open source Salesforce applications, work through first four modules of this Trail: Build Applications with CumulusCI
To learn about version control systems, and practice using Git, GitHub, and the VS command-line interface, work through the first three modules of this Trail: Set Up Your Workspace and Install Developer Tools
If you are working on Recipes, come to the sprint with a Scratch Org or Sandbox with NPSP installed
- Please do NOT use a Production environment during the sprint!
- If you do not know how to create a scratch org, a great alternative for getting started is using a Trailhead playground with NPSP installed. Follow instructions here
- Scratch org commands
  - EDA: cci flow run eda:trial_org --org dev --default
  - NPSP: cci flow run npsp:install_prod --org dev OR clone the recipe templates repo and then cci flow run npsp_scratch --org dev
Review open issues in both of our Github repositories. you are welcome to
- https://github.com/SFDO-Community-Sprints/DataGenerationToolkit/issues
- https://github.com/SFDO-Community-Sprints/Snowfakery-Recipe-Templates/issues

Join Snowfakery Recipe Writers slack channel for support - project leaders are monitoring this channel and we can help!