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Welcome to the overview-server wiki!

What are we working on?

• News stories written with Overview.
• Our main Issue tracker
• If you have an issue, add it to our Github issues

Running Overview on your own computer

• Installing and Running Overview
• Configuration
• Handling huge document sets

Developing

• Setting up a development environment
• Writing Plugins
  • Overview API Overview
  • Developing your first Overview Plugin
  • Writing a Plugin
  • Accessing the main page from a Plugin
  • Overview API reference
  • Plugins on Docker Hub
  • List of Overview Plugin projects
• Incantations -- command line recipes for solving specific problems
• Manual Integration Tests
• Git Workflow

Deploying Overview

Most deployments are though the Dockerized overview-local.

• Installing and Running Overview
• How to update overview-local container images after making changes to the source in overview-server.
• Deployment Tagging Policy

Some other useful things you may want to do

• Reindexing documents
• Configuring a reverse proxy server

We also have a legacy AWS deployment system based on a series of scripts. You almost certainly will not use this.

• Deploying and releasing -- everyday commands
• Deploying from scratch to Amazon
• Managing Overview on Amazon
• Creating staging instances on Amazon
• Viewing logs

Design documents

• Glossary
• Coding Style
• Server Ports
• SQL
• Security
• Internationalization (also known as "i18n")
• Plugins
  • Plugin FAQ

Page Graveyard

All these documents are obsolete.

• Integration Testing Brief Overview
• Integration Testing Details
• Creating releases
• Unit Testing
• Client server protocol
• Actor Error handling
• Developing with the database
• Features
  • Distributed Job Handling
  • CSV Parsing
  • PDF Upload
• Transaction model
  • Deltas
• Cross-cutting concerns
• June 2012 Design Meeting
• User Stories
• Asset management