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+title: New Service Checklist
+date: 2023-03-23T00:00:00+00:00
+weight: 0
+geekdocRepo: https://github.com/owncloud/ocis
+geekdocEditPath: edit/master/docs/services
+geekdocFilePath: new-service-checklist.md
+geekdocCollapseSection: true
+---
+
+When a new service gets introduced, this checklist is a good startingpoint for things that need to be completed before the service gets published (merged). This list is without claim of completeness or correct sort order.
+
+## New Service Checklist
+
+Use this checklist with copy/paste in your PR - right from the beginning. It renders correctly in your PR.
+
+```markdown
+- [ ] Provide a README.md for that service in the root folder of that service.
+  - Use CamelCase for section headers.
+- [ ] For images, you currenly have to create a folder named `images` on the same lavel where readme.md is located and put all the images used in readme.md. For the time being, the imagefolder needs to be manually copied to `docs/servcies/<service name>`. This is also true for image changes post merging.
+- [ ] If new CLI command are introduced, that command must be described in readme.md.
+- [ ] Add the service to the makefile in the ocis repo root.
+- [ ] Make the service startable for binary and individual startup:
+  - For single binary add service to `ocis/pkg/runtime`
+  - For individual startup add service to `ocis/pkg/commands`
+- [ ] Add the service to `.drone.star` to enable CI.
+- [ ] Inform doc team in an _early stage_ to review the readme AND the environment variables created.
+  - The description must reflect the behaviour AND usually has a positive code quality impact.
+- [ ] Create proper description strings for envvars - see other services for examples, especially when it comes to multiple values. This must include:
+  - base description, set of available values, description of each value.
+- [ ] When suggestable commits are created for text changes and you agree, collect them to a batch and commit them. Do not forget to rebase locally to avoid overwriting the changes made.
+- [ ] If new envvars are introduced which serve the same purpose but in multiple services, an additional envvar must be added at the beginning of the list starting with `OCIS_` (global envvar).
+- [ ] Ensure that a service has a debug port
+- [ ] If the new service introduces a new port:
+  - the port must be added to [port-ranges.md](https://github.com/owncloud/ocis/blob/master/docs/services/port-ranges.md) and to the readme.md file.
+- [ ] Make sure to have a function `FullDefaultConfig()` in `pkg/config/defaults/defaultconfig.go` of your service. It is needed to create the documentation.
+```