How to do it...

To create the basic skeleton for the addon module, perform the given steps:

Create the directories for code files:

$ cd local-addons/my_module
$ mkdir models
$ touch models/__init__.py
$ mkdir controllers
$ touch controllers/__init__.py
$ mkdir views
$ mkdir security
$ mkdir data
$ mkdir demo
$ mkdir i18n
$ mkdir -p static/description

Edit the module's top __init__.py file so that the code in subdirectories is loaded:

from . import models
from . import controllers

This should get us started with a structure containing the most used directories, similar to this one:

.
├── __init__.py
├── __manifest__.py
│
├── controllers
│   └── __init__.py
├── data
├── demo
├── i18n 
├── models 
│ └── __init__.py 
├── security 
├── static 
│ └── description 
└── views