Acquia BLT¶

Features¶

Acquia BLT offers the following features for your organization’s use:

• Local Git hooks – Evaluate formatting, syntax, and compliance with Drupal coding standards.
• Testing frameworks – Provides default configurations for Behat and PHPUnit.
• Project automation tasks – Includes commands for syncing environments, compiling front-end assets, and executing tests.
• Deployment artifact generation – Includes building production-only dependencies and sanitizing production-environment code.
• Continuous integration and deployment tools – Supports both the Acquia Cloud pipelines feature and Travis CI.

Getting started¶

To get started with Acquia BLT, review Acquia BLT installation instructions, and then review the following usage documentation:

• Onboarding with Acquia BLT – How to get started on project work.
• Repository architecture – How code is organized, and why.
• Project tasks – How to complete tasks on your local computer.
• Development workflow with Acquia BLT – How to contribute your code to Acquia BLT.
• Automated testing – How to write and run tests, and why you should care.
• Deployment workflow
• Release process
• Continuous integration
• Open Source Contributions

Videos¶

• Acquia BLT project creation
• Deploying to Acquia Cloud

Releases and versioning¶

Acquia BLT usually has two supported releases at any given time, each corresponding to a major semantic version. The newest supported major version of Acquia BLT will receive bug fixes and new features, and the immediately previous major version will receive only critical bug and security fixes for the next six months. Acquia will release updates for Acquia BLT based on the following schedule for major and minor releases:

• New features and bug fixes – The first Wednesday of every month.
• Security and bug-fix releases – The third Wednesday of every month (as necessary).

This schedule coincides with the Drupal core release cycle, allowing the use of a single Acquia BLT major release throughout the lifecycle of a Drupal core minor release.

Contributing to Acquia BLT¶

If you would like to help improve Acquia BLT, file issues from its GitHub issue queue. For contribution guidelines and instructions, see Contributing to Acquia BLT.

License¶

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.