(Redmine issue: #4216)

The previous description was not exactly correct, I have found some issues after deployment to test server. (Redmine issue: #5101)

Configuration files and documentation regarding regular event reporting now clearly describe the steps necessary to enable sending emails to real world abuse contacts. (Redmine issue: #5101)

(Redmine issue: #4789)

(Redmine issue: #3361,#3387,#4216)

The makefile target 'develop' now pre-builds web interface artifacts. There is a new example configuration file for Apache2 that demonstrates the necessary configuration for Git installations. There is a custom WSGI script file for easier web interface installation from Git. (Redmine issue: #4216)

Removed unnecessary duplicit section about installation. (Redmine issue: #3361)

The installation manual was enhanced with the option of installing the project directly from Git repository. This option overlaps with the installation process for local development, so the development documentation page was also updated accordingly. (Redmine issue: #4216)

* The creation of Python virtual environment is now a separate makefile target.
* The 'develop' target now reuses already defined targets.
* Using python-dotenv to local configuration customizations.

(Redmine issue: #3387,#4216)

This version comes with improved application command line parameter documentation, some changes were necessary to make everything work again. (Redmine issue: #3387,#3361)

Previous approach, while better in some aspects caused troubles on our automated build system, because it required for the Mentat to be correctly installed for hawat-cli to be available. (Redmine issue: #3387,#4216)

(Redmine issue: #4789,#4216)

(Redmine issue: #3387,#4216)

This commit brings in considerable amount of work. When working on this issue everything was so tied together, that I have abandoned all attempts to split it into multiple commits. There are following changes and more:

* Implementation of lightweight chroot for containing the application in single directory tree.
* Design changes in scripts and daemons to implement the lightweight chroot.
* Many configuration file changes to make everything work properly.
* Makefile additions, new targets related to running
* Updated development documentation page.

(Redmine issue: #4216)

Currently only built-in Flask commands run, shell, etc. are available. It can be used to launch development web server, which is now documented in development documentation page. (Redmine issue: #4216)

Documentation, build procedures...almost everything was revised and rethought.  (Redmine issue: #4216,#3387,#3361)

Previously all API documentation pages were manually created, which resulted is errors. (Redmine issue: #4216,#3361,#3387)

* Merged pylint and pyflakes tasks for simplicity,
* Fixed broken clean task.
* Updated development documentation to include Grunt as prerequisite.
* Few additional minor tweaks.

(Redmine issue: #4216,#3387,#3361)

Following big improvements were made to make the development more easier:

* Created the 'setup.py' script to support native Python packaging with setuptools and pip.
* There is a new target 'make develop', that will bootstrap the Python virtual environment, install all production and development requirements and install the whole project in editable mode.
* Revised the dependency installation targets.
* Big facelift of makefile help target.
* Added target for build environment cleanup.
* Added target for initialization of new translations of Mentat and Hawat.
* Added target for building locally Python packages.
* Added target for building locally Debian packages.
* Updated documentation page for developers.

(Redmine issue: #4216,#3387,#3361)

After this all code related to MongoDB is gone and database migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL is no longer possible. I have kept the documentation page about migration for now, so that the users can still at least find the information. (Redmine issue: #4225)

The recipe for upgrading Mentat system for updated during the current Mentat system upgrade. (Redmine issue: #3361)

The database migrations for IDEA event database *mentat_events* are now implemented. I have moved this issue to the next release, because there is code already merged in the current development branch that depended performing the migrations on target system. It was a choice of either removing that commit, or going forward with implementation. I have decided to implement it immediately, because this issue is blocking many more features.

The implementation is again based on Alembic tool, which is already being used for migrations on mentat_main metadata database. It is however separatelly configured instance, merging both instances into single one would require considerably more amount of research and work.

I have also updated accordingly manual pages regarding installation and upgrading. Very important bit of information was stamping the database with latest migration revision after clean installation.

(Redmine issue: #4230)

(Redmine issue: #3361)

Added few remarks pointed out by Radko Krkoš to the documentation section about RAM based filesystem. (Redmine issue: #3361)

(Redmine issue: #3361,#4570)

(Redmine issue: #3361)

Radko Krkoš authored 6 years ago and Jan Mach committed 6 years ago

Added lessons learned from DB optimization on mentat-alt and mentat-dev. (Redmine issue: #4301)

Updated the DB schema representation. (Redmine issue: #4363)

(Redmine issue: #3361)

Radko Krkoš authored 6 years ago and Jan Mach committed 6 years ago

Note: This commit was actually created by Jan Mach, but contains the work of Radko Krkoš, who should get all the credit for coming up with the upgrade procedure checklist. (Redmine issue: #4382)

This new blueprint provides users (admins) with the ability to generate API access keys and use them to access the website. Currently the key generation is restricted only to the administrators, because this feature is considered to be experimental. (Redmine issue: #4366)

(Redmine issue: #3361)

(Redmine issue: #3361)

This presentation contains introductory information for Mentat system, latest news and description of current state. (Redmine issue: #3361)

* Added more links to external resources.
* Minor content improvements.

(Redmine issue: #3361)

Moved some content from website to autogenerated documentation to prevent from repeating the same content on multiple places. Added information about versioning and tagging. (Redmine issue: #3361)

The Sphinx-doc reported various minor bugs when generating the documentation. These should be fixed now. (Redmine issue: #3361)

* Added section for useful links and references.
* Created substitution to create direct link to Git revision page in our project support system.
* Created substitution for easy generation of documentation links.

(Redmine issue: #3361)

Currently focus of this section is Mentat system health monitoring. (Redmine issue: #4222,#3361)

(Redmine issue: #3361)