Development Resources¶

• Table of contents
• Development Resources
  • Current Sprint
  • Deep Dives
    • Content has been promoted to the Foreman web site
    • Upcoming deep dives
  • Patch reviews
  • Packaging
  • Release process
  • Developer documentation and designs
  • Redmine
  • Infrastructure

Current Sprint¶

• Current Sprint Information

Deep Dives¶

Content has been promoted to the Foreman web site¶

The content from this page has been incorporated into the official theforeman.org web site. You can access it here:

• *Foreman screenshots & videos: Deep Dives*

The archived version of this page is still available

Upcoming deep dives¶

Upcoming topics are on the Upcoming Deep Dives page - feel free to add more suggested topics!

Patch reviews¶

• Reviewing patches - some notes about things to check for when reviewing PRs
• Reviewing_patches-commit_message_format - commit message standard for Foreman projects

Packaging¶

Foreman is packaged as both RPMs (for EL, Fedora) and Debian packages.

• RPM Packaging
  • Koji
• Debian Packaging
• Installer Packaging

Release process¶

Each major release of Foreman is managed by a release manager.

• Release Management contains general guidance on the process, controlling what's released etc.
• Release Process describes the process the manager will follow (and amend) to prepare and publish each release

Each release schedule is available below:

• Foreman 1.7 Schedule
• Foreman 1.8 Schedule
• Foreman 1.9 Schedule
• Foreman 1.10 Schedule
• Foreman 1.11 Schedule

Developer documentation and designs¶

• Granular permission system (aka new permission system)
• Create a host in UI when building and runnning Foreman from sources
• API v2 Development Guidelines
• friendly_id gem is used by Foreman to unify the the common find logic between UI and API based on id or friendly_id "name" of resource

Redmine¶

• Triage process - how to triage redmine issues
• Security process - how to handle security issues

Infrastructure¶

• Jenkins - how our CI is configured, managing jobs etc.
• Koji - our RPM build system
• KojiBuilderSetup - adding builders to Koji