DeveloperDocs

Developer Documentation

This section contains information about developer topics. You may also be interested in User Documentation and downloads.

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Design docs

• Architecture -- a quick overview of the various components in Spacewalk

• JavaDesign -- design of the Java web UI.

• Navi -- our navigation system -- understand our own home grown navigation system used throughout the app

• ListTag -- used for creating lists within the java pages

• AclDesign -- detailed explanation of ACLs

• Database

  • Development Guide

• JavaDoc -- Documentation of Java code

• PythonDocumentation -- Documentation of python code

• XmlrpcHandlers -- understand how to deal with XMLRPC handlers

• UnitTests -- how to run them

• CodeAnalysis -- a document going through the java packages describing what they contain and what work is needed.

• CodeAnalysis -- Analyze of code on Ohloh.net

• TaskoMatic -- Document outlining what taskomatic is and what each task is used for.

• CobblerIntegration - How spacewalk and cobbler interact

• Proxy - How Proxy works

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Working with the code

• Git Guide -- how to work with Git, the source control of choice for Spacewalk

• Git stats -- boring statistics extracted from our git repo.

• Setting up the Development environment

• EclipseSetup -- How to get eclipse running to edit/compile/junit the spacewalk-java code.

• PatchProcess -- how to go about creating a new patch and submitting it to the mailing list

• BugHandling -- how to commit a fix and what to do with bugzillas.

• ChangingSchema -- if you need to change the Spacewalk DB schema read this

• CodingConventions -- coding style and conventions used in the project

• Tracing a page -- Follow code flow from the webUI down to the DB layer

• AddingPagesOverview -- Adding a page to the Java stack

• Branching -- how branches are organized in the git repo.

• LocalIvyRepo -- how to create a local ivy repository

• CustomSerializer -- how to create a custom serializer

• LogDriverSetup -- how to enable the log4j logdriver utility to see SQL output and params used

• HowToScratchBuild -- how to create a test rpm with scratch build

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Releasing the code

• ReleaseProcess -- Process for building RPMs

• List of packages in releases -- including packages already in Fedora. Contains version of each package for each distribution.

• Copr nightly -- Current nightly server build status.

• Copr nightly-client -- Current nightly client build status.

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Artwork

• Artwork and Design resources

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Misc

• Brainstorming

• Contributor List

• Projects - libraries, which may be useful for others as well and for which we are upstream.