Howto troubleshoot issues with the easy-installer

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The documentation to get someone started adding new devices is at: https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/tools/easy-installer/-/wikis/home

If you want a rough breakdown of the steps involved, see

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A rough overview of the steps one has to take is as follows

• fork the easy-installer repo in the /e/ GitLab and clone it to your computer
• create and edit two YAML configuration files for the device you want to add
• copy one line in Java code to add a new mapping for your device code name to internal codes
• check if you can re-use existing batch/shell scripts for the actual flashing steps or create new ones (bash/CMD)
• check if you can re-use existing instruction texts/images or create new ones
• run/test the code and package it to an executable, either in an IDE or with gradle on the command line
• find the root cause if your changes don’t work on first try

If that all sounds gibberish to you, you might not be up to it. But on the other hand I think it is not necessary to have a lot of Java knowledge for example. Maybe any programming language will do, but strongly-typed and object oriented should be a plus. Shell scripting is relevant as well. And of course it helps if you already know forking, branching and merge requests with either GitLab or GitHub.