Introducing the Allura Platform:

• Allura is an open platform for open processes
• Allura is designed to support an ecosystem

Getting Started

• Platform Tour
  • Introduction
  • The Context Object
  • Artifacts
  • Platform services provided for artifacts
  • Asynchronous Processing
  • Email Integration
• SCM (Git, Mercurial, Subversion) Hosting Installation
  • Install a chroot environment
  • Configure OpenLDAP in the Chroot
  • Update the chroot ssh configuration
  • Setup the Custom FUSE Driver
  • Configure Allura to Use the LDAP Server
• Third-party Data Migration
  • Exporting data
  • Preparing for import
  • Validating import data
  • Getting Import API ticket
  • Performing actual import

Writing a Allura based app

• Creating your first Allura Tool
• Adding your Allura Tool to a Allura Install
• Writing a Wiki Tool Part 1: Pages
• Writing a wiki Tool Part 2: Links
• Writing a wiki Tool Part 3: Revisions
• Testing your Tool

Inside the Platform Components

• Platform Architecture overview
  • Platform building blocks
  • Application Tools
    • What’s in a tool?
    • Users/groups and Permissions
• Guide to the Allura task and event system
  • Glossary
  • Tasks
  • Events
  • Running the Task Daemon
• Guide to email integration in the Allura
  • Email routing
  • Email Content Handling
• Guide to Users, Groups and Permissions in Allura
  • User/Group model
  • Individual artifacts and ACL’s
  • Permission hierarchy
  • Permission predicates

Frequently Asked Questions

• Why not improve existing tools like Trac, Redmine or Bugzilla?
• If you were so inspired by Roundup, why not just use it?
• Why create all the apps as plugins?
• Why not just allow web-based extensions?

Project References

• Online References

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page