Installing addon modules from GitHub

GitHub is a great source of third-party addons. A lot of Odoo partners use GitHub to share the addons they maintain internally, and the Odoo Community Association (OCA) collectively maintains several hundreds of addons on GitHub. Before starting to write your own addon, be sure to check that nothing already exists that you could use as is or as a starting point.

This recipe will show you how to clone the partner-contact project of the OCA from GitHub and make the addon modules it contains available in your instance.

Getting ready

Suppose you want to change the way addresses are handled in your instance; your customer needs a third field in addition to Odoo's two (street and street2) to store addresses. You could certainly write your own addon to add a field on res.partner, but the issue is a bit trickier than it seems if you want the address to be properly formatted on invoices. Fortunately, someone on a mailing list tells you about the partner_address_street3...