There are two main branches:

• development: Every development work should be done here first
• master: Whenever a new version is ready, merge development branch into this one and push

Affiliate contains a few automated tasks that helps the developer to make faster and less buggy releases.

1. Install nodejs: [https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/installing-node.js-via-package-manager]
2. Install Grunt globally sudo npm install -g grunt
3. Execute git submodule update --init --recursive to download every submodule

Affiliate requires a few node dependencies for development. Use npm install to install all of them.

1. Make sure that the version in affiliate.php matches with the version in package.json, otherwise the build will fail.
2. Update all Git submodules with git submodule update --remote
3. Now execute npm run build. A new folder called build will be created where you can grab the zip file for the new version.
4. Language files, JS Lint and text domains verification are done during the execution of this script so developer doesn't need to worry about these tasks.

Don't forget to create a new tag in Git!