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)

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)

With the addition of database migration tools the steps for successfull upgrade of Mentat system within the 2.x series had to be documented. (Redmine issue: #4252)

Improved documentation with focus on possible developers, so the Overview and Development section were greatly improved. (Redmine issue: #3361)

(Redmine issue: #3387)

Added information about how to get rid of old Perl-based Mentat system and other now unnecessary files and directories. (Redmine issue: #3361)

(Redmine issue: #3361,#3387)

The only places in documentation where MongoDB mentions were kept are for obvious reasons installation and migration pages. (Redmine issue: #4225)

(Redmine issue: #3361)

Added section about cleanup into migration documentation page plus few additional minor improvements.

(Redmine issue: #3361)

On busy server the report storage can easily contain hundreds of thousands of files and things can start to get really slow when working with that particular directory. This patch will solve that problem by sorting reports according to the timestamp within the report file name. (Redmine issue: #3378)

Improved documentation related to installation, migration and quickstart overview based on feedback from users installing the system.

(Redmine issue: #3361)

(Redmine issue: #3361)

(Redmine issue: #3361)

(Redmine issue: #3361)

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

(Redmine issue: #3361)

(Redmine issue: #3378)

Hawat can now track item changes and display them through new changelogs pluggable module. This feature can be used for monitoring changes done on various items like user and group account settings. This patch contains complete work including enhancements of database model. (Redmine issue: #3734)

(Redmine issue: #3361)

(Redmine issue: #3378,#3361)