Help Wanted: Document how to do local development on a plugin that requires an E20/Enterprise license

[mm-cloud-bot]

Context

Extra steps are needed to do local development or test changes on a plugin that requires a Mattermost Enterprise (or E20) license. You will see the following error:

Requires a Mattermost Cloud or Mattermost E20 License.

This message is expected. You can proceed by configuring your server to enable both testing (ServiceSettings.EnableTesting) and Developer mode (ServiceSettings.EnableDeveloper). See mattermost/mattermost#17310 (comment) for additional details.

Docs request

Document the process of configuring a Mattermost server to enable testing and development without an Enterprise (or E20) license to unblock others who encounter the same barrier to contribution.

How you can help

• Familiarize yourself with the technical execution details.
• Confirm the error that's returned and update if needed.
• Confirm the details work as documented.
• Collaborate with Mattermost Engineering in the Hacktoberfest channel on the Mattermost Community Server to identify the right place for this information to live on the developer documentation site.
• Create a dev docs PR with your updates.

[justinegeffen]

@mickmister, is this still required with the new package structure?

[mickmister]

@justinegeffen Yes, unless you have a Professional license or greater, you will need to set the values described in the ticket description.