Merge develop branch into main branch

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Overview

As a developer, we need the develop and main branches to be in sync so that the code base is clean and we can more easily collaborate.

Deadline: 11/14/2024

Action Items

• Create a protected branch of main called ava-main-v1 to preserve all their old work. This will separate v1 from v2 (pre backend reset vs post backend reset).
• Merge main into develop
• Test all the changes in develop. Ideally in a staging environment
• Review code (175 files changed)
• Double check github actions to see if any of them are effected.
• Mkdocs gh action needs to be updated to deploy from main
• Execute pull request to Merge develop into main

This issue Depends on these deployment tasks:

• Important: deploy develop branch to (personal) AWS as a staging environment to fully test current changes.
• we need an understanding of the exact process of how the main branch is currently deployed to AWS incubator
• Integrate whitenoise
• prepare develop branch for a staging deployment

The deployment for the develop branch should be totally separate from what we have now (stage.civictechjobs.org). This way we can test and confirm a develop deployment is fully functional before pushing to main.

Deprioritized tasks:

• Write documentation about new main branch and old main branch - moved to issue Add documentation about the two different branches: main and develop and how they work. #598
• Write Documentation about how the stage docker environment works. (issue 598)
• update documentation about how mkdocs is deployed - it is deployed from main now

New issue found while testing stage environment:

• qualifier page failing to load due to lazy loading not working in current project set up.

Resources/Instructions

https://stage.civictechjobs.org/

Resources

gh action v4 migration docs:

• https://github.com/actions/upload-artifact?tab=readme-ov-file#breaking-changes
• https://github.com/actions/upload-artifact/blob/main/docs/MIGRATION.md

Deploying a django app:

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Server-side/Django/Deployment
• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.1/howto/deployment/

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Update 11/21/2024

• The develop branch has been successfully deployed to our personal AWS account for testing.
• Devops team will not be able to help us deploy to Incubator until January. They need to work on deploying VRMS first.

This issue will no longer depend on an incubator depoyment. I will test staging on my personal AWS, fix issues found there, then merge to main.

It should be okay because the gh action to deploy the main branch to stage.civictechjobs.org is non-functional and disabled. Therefore the stage website will be uneffected by the change.

Our goal in January will be to work with the incubator/devops team when they are available to fully complete the deployment pipelines. We will sync the new main with a prod deployment, and develop to stage.civictechjobs.org then.

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This issue is related to #585