# HG changeset patch # User Andrew Shadura # Date 1405427343 -7200 # Node ID df5d8a67c30c7fabb69e7b2100cd1c97ac2c6a5b # Parent 7dba6116496cb27e299faee206eb4168c96444d6 Add some beauty to the README.rst diff -r 7dba6116496c -r df5d8a67c30c README.rst --- a/README.rst Wed Jul 09 19:35:19 2014 +0200 +++ b/README.rst Tue Jul 15 14:29:03 2014 +0200 @@ -5,19 +5,19 @@ About ----- -``Kallithea`` is a fast and powerful management tool for Mercurial_ and GIT_ -with a built in push/pull server, full text search and code-review. +``Kallithea`` is a fast and powerful management tool for Mercurial_ and Git_ +with a built-in push/pull server, full text search and code-review. It works on http/https and has a built in permission/authentication system with the ability to authenticate via LDAP or ActiveDirectory. Kallithea also provides -simple API so it's easy integrable with existing external systems. +simple API so it's easy to integrate with existing external systems. -Kallithea is similar in some respects to github_ or bitbucket_, +Kallithea is similar in some respects to GitHub_ or Bitbucket_, however Kallithea can be run as standalone hosted application on your own server. -It is open source and donation ware and focuses more on providing a customized, -self administered interface for Mercurial_ and GIT_ repositories. -Kallithea works on \*nix systems and Windows it is powered by a vcs_ library -that Lukasz Balcerzak and Marcin Kuzminski created to handle multiple -different version control systems. +It is open-source donationware and focuses more on providing a customised, +self-administered interface for Mercurial_ and Git_ repositories. +Kallithea works on Unix-like systems and Windows, and is powered by the vcs_ library +created by Łukasz Balcerzak and Marcin Kuźmiński to uniformly handle multiple +version control systems. Kallithea was forked from RhodeCode in July 2014 and has been heavily modified. @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Detailed instructions and links may be found on the Installation page. Please visit http://packages.python.org/Kallithea/installation.html for -more details +more details. Source code @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ MIRRORS: -Issue tracker and sources at bitbucket_ +Issue tracker and sources at Bitbucket_ https://bitbucket.org/conservancy/kallithea @@ -54,10 +54,10 @@ Kallithea Features ------------------ -- Has its own middleware to handle mercurial_ and git_ protocol requests. +- Has its own middleware to handle Mercurial_ and Git_ protocol requests. Each request is authenticated and logged together with IP address. -- Build for speed and performance. You can make multiple pulls/pushes simultaneous. - Proven to work with 1000s of repositories and users +- Built for speed and performance. You can make multiple pulls/pushes simultaneously. + Proven to work with thousands of repositories and users. - Supports http/https, LDAP, AD, proxy-pass authentication. - Full permissions (private/read/write/admin) together with IP restrictions for each repository, additional explicit forking, repositories group and repository creation permissions. @@ -65,46 +65,46 @@ - Repository groups let you group repos and manage them easier. They come with permission delegation features, so you can delegate groups management. - Users can fork other users repos, and compare them at any time. -- Built in Gist functionality for sharing code snippets. +- Built-in versioned paste functionality (Gist) for sharing code snippets. - Integrates easily with other systems, with custom created mappers you can connect it to almost any issue tracker, and with an JSON-RPC API you can make much more -- Build in commit-api let's you add, edit and commit files right from Kallithea +- Built-in commit API lets you add, edit and commit files right from Kallithea web interface using simple editor or upload binary files using simple form. -- Powerfull pull-request driven review system with inline commenting, +- Powerful pull request driven review system with inline commenting, changeset statuses, and notification system. -- Importing and syncing repositories from remote locations for GIT_, Mercurial_ and SVN. -- Mako templates let's you customize the look and feel of the application. +- Importing and syncing repositories from remote locations for Git_, Mercurial_ and Subversion. +- Mako templates let you customize the look and feel of the application. - Beautiful diffs, annotations and source code browsing all colored by pygments. - Raw diffs are made in git-diff format for both VCS systems, including GIT_ binary-patches -- Mercurial_ and Git_ DAG graphs and yui-flot powered graphs with zooming and statistics + Raw diffs are made in Git-diff format for both VCS systems, including Git_ binary-patches +- Mercurial_ and Git_ DAG graphs and Flot-powered graphs with zooming and statistics to track activity for repositories - Admin interface with user/permission management. Admin activity journal, logs pulls, pushes, forks, registrations and other actions made by all users. - Server side forks. It is possible to fork a project and modify it freely without breaking the main repository. -- rst and markdown README support for repositories. +- reST and Markdown README support for repositories. - Full text search powered by Whoosh on the source files, commit messages, and file names. - Build in indexing daemons, with optional incremental index build + Built-in indexing daemons, with optional incremental index build (no external search servers required all in one application) -- Setup project descriptions/tags and info inside built in db for easy, non - file-system operations. +- Setup project descriptions/tags and info inside built in DB for easy, + non-filesystem operations. - Intelligent cache with invalidation after push or project change, provides high performance and always up to date data. -- RSS / Atom feeds, gravatar support, downloadable sources as zip/tar/gz -- Optional async tasks for speed and performance using celery_ +- RSS/Atom feeds, Gravatar support, downloadable sources as zip/tar/gz +- Optional async tasks for speed and performance using Celery_ - Backup scripts can do backup of whole app and send it over scp to desired location -- Based on pylons / sqlalchemy / sqlite / whoosh / vcs +- Based on Pylons, SQLAlchemy, SQLite, Whoosh, vcs Incoming / Plans ---------------- - Finer granular permissions per branch, or subrepo -- Web based merges for pull requests +- Web-based merges for pull requests - Tracking history for each lines in files - Simple issue tracker -- SSH based authentication with server side key management +- SSH-based authentication with server side key management - Commit based built in wiki system - More statistics and graph (global annotation + some more statistics) - Other advancements as development continues (or you can of course make @@ -141,12 +141,12 @@ - http://packages.python.org/Kallithea/ - http://kallithea.readthedocs.org/ -You may also build the documentation for yourself - go into ``docs/`` and run:: +You may also build the documentation for yourself: go into ``docs/`` and run:: make html -(You need to have sphinx_ installed to build the documentation. If you don't -have sphinx_ installed you can install it via the command: +(You need to have Sphinx_ installed to build the documentation. If you don't +have Sphinx_ installed you can install it via the command: ``easy_install sphinx``) @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ have to immediately commit to switching to Kallithea. This option will most likely go away once the two projects have diverged significantly. -To run Kallithea on a Rhodecode database, run:: +To run Kallithea on a RhodeCode database, run:: echo "BRAND = 'rhodecode'" > kallithea/brand.py @@ -194,13 +194,12 @@ an empty file (or watch out for stray brand.pyc after removing brand.py). .. _virtualenv: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv -.. _python: http://www.python.org/ -.. _sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/ -.. _mercurial: http://mercurial.selenic.com/ -.. _bitbucket: http://bitbucket.org/ -.. _github: http://github.com/ -.. _subversion: http://subversion.tigris.org/ -.. _git: http://git-scm.com/ -.. _celery: http://celeryproject.org/ +.. _Python: http://www.python.org/ .. _Sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/ +.. _Mercurial: http://mercurial.selenic.com/ +.. _Bitbucket: http://bitbucket.org/ +.. _GitHub: http://github.com/ +.. _Subversion: http://subversion.tigris.org/ +.. _Git: http://git-scm.com/ +.. _Celery: http://celeryproject.org/ .. _vcs: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/vcs