SmartIDE Open‑Source Strategy and Development Workflow

SmartIDE is an open‑source, cloud‑native IDE designed to give developers super‑powers across multiple languages (Java, .NET, JavaScript, Go, Python, PHP, C/C++) and platforms (Windows, macOS, Linux), supporting both VSCode and JetBrains toolchains.

The open‑source strategy aims to let product teams and community contributors work concurrently without interference, preserve extensive history, and apply Scrum/Kanban processes, while automating the entire lifecycle with CI/CD pipelines that handle cross‑platform builds, security scans, binary packaging, and container image creation.

Key tooling includes Azure DevOps for project tracking, Git repositories, and pipelines; Feishu for collaboration; GitHub and Gitee for code hosting and community contributions; Azure Blob storage for binaries; and Docker Hub/Alibaba Cloud for container images.

The workflow comprises 14 steps: a synchronized main repository across Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Gitee; a protected main branch; iteration‑based release branches; feature branches linked to work items; feature‑PRs with mandatory code reviews and optional squash merges; release‑PRs involving product managers; Azure Pipelines defined in azure-pipeline.yml ; storage of builds and releases; container image distribution; sync tasks between platforms; GitHub Actions for documentation publishing and repository mirroring; dual‑region website deployment; community fork and PR process; and final sync back to Azure DevOps for release.

Additional resources cover merge strategies (Merge, Rebase, Squash) and methods for cleaning sensitive information from Git history.