The Crowdcast website for collecting flu forecasts. (Previously known as Epicast.)

The site is live at https://delphi.cmu.edu/crowdcast.

The website is deployed to two separate environments: staging and production. The code for those environments is kept in the dev and main branches, respectively.

The dev branch is deployed to a Delphi-internal development environment where we can iterate quickly without worry of breaking the production site.

The main branch is deployed to a public-facing production environment. It should contain only tested and reliable code.

main should not be updated while a forecasting round is active (i.e. Friday through Monday), except in case of a critical bugfix.

Basic develop changes -> deploy/review in staging -> release to production workflow:

• Start by creating a [bug|fix|feature|etc] branch based on dev.
• Make a PR and tag a reviewer with your changes against dev. Once apporved and merged this will trigger CI to deploy the application at https://staging.delphi.cmu.edu/crowdcast.
• Once staging is reviewed and deemed acceptable, make a PR against main and tag a reviewer. Once this is approved and merged the production version of the application will be available at https://delphi.cmu.edu/crowdcast

For developing the website, see the epicast development guide.