Developer Documentation¶

Components¶

1. v2.0
2. Download Source from Sourceforge
3. User Interface
   • UI Architecture Overview
   • Tagging (new in 1.3)
   • Access Control (new in 1.3)
4. Scheduler
5. Repository
6. Database
   • SchemaSpy (HP internal)
   • fossology-gold the master database schema
   • License Ref Table
   • Helpful sql for v 1.2
   • Useful SQL
7. Agents
   • FOSSology Agents
   • How To Create An Agent
   • Writing a FOSSology agent (new work in progress)
   • Nomos license agent
   • Copyright analysis agent
   • How To Write Agents & Plugins - A Series of Tutorials
   • Programming for the Job Queue
8. Plugins
   • File Comparing and Diff type plugins
9. Process
   • Reporting bugs
   • svn branching
   • Coding Style
10. Test Machines
    • Test machines (HP internal)
11. Miscellaneous
    • Global System Configuration Variables
    • File Locations
    • Tips on customizing Help, Welcome and Default screens
    • debian_metadata Ideas for extracting Debian package metadata
    • debian_extended_analysis Ideas for extended analysis of Debian related files
    • Preliminary thoughts on REST API

The following may no longer be relevant:

• Known Security Risks
• Symbolic Alignment Matrix White Paper
• Mining Freshmeat
• Mining Fedora
• Interesting Ideas, Leads, Articles

Testing Documentation¶

If you are a developer of FOSSology or want to do some testing for the project see the Testing FOSSology area of this wiki.

If you just want to run the tests or learn about them see the Running FOSSology Tests area of the wiki.

Issue Tracking¶

• Issue Tracker
• Log New Issue

Release Documentation¶

This documents the nuts and bolts of producing a FOSSology release.

• Release Process
• Release Testing - Document the minimum tests necessary to pass before releasing
• How to create a new release
• Building Fossology using pbuilder
• FOSSology Debian Package Process
• Building FOSSology on ubuntu
• FOSSology RPM Package Process