Contributions are welcome!
The repository is hosted at gitlab.com/yaal/canaille.
If you want to implement a feature or a bugfix, please start by discussing it with us on the bugtracker or the matrix room.
You can either run the demo locally or with Docker.
The only tool required for local development is uv. Make sure to have uv installed on your computer to be able to hack Canaille.
Initialize your development environment with:
- uv sync --extra front --extra oidc
to have a minimal working development environment. This will allow you to run the tests with uv pytest --backend memory
.
- uv sync --extra front --extra oidc --extra sqlite
to have a minimal working development environment with SQLite backend support. This will allow you to run the tests with uv pytest --backend sql
.
- uv sync --extra front --extra oidc --extra ldap
to have a minimal working development environment with LDAP backend support. This will allow you to run the tests with uv pytest --backend ldap
.
- uv sync --all-extras
if you want to have everything at your fingertips. Note that it may compile some Python dependencies that would expect things to be installed on your system;
Some dependencies of Canaille might need to be compiled, so you probably want to check that GCC and cargo are available on your computer.
After having launched the demo you have access to several services:
- A canaille server at localhost:5000
- A dummy client at localhost:5001
- Another dummy client at localhost:5002
The canaille server has some default users:
- A regular user which login and password are user;
- A moderator user which login and password are moderator;
- An admin user which admin and password are admin;
- A new user which login is james. This user has no password yet, and his first attempt to log-in would result in sending a password initialization email (if a smtp server is configured).
Canaille comes with several backends:
- a lightweight test purpose memory backend
- a sql backend, based on sqlalchemy
- a production-ready LDAP backend
If you want to develop with docker, your browser needs to be able to reach the canaille container. The docker-compose file exposes the right ports, but front requests are from outside the docker network: the canaille url that makes sense for docker, points nowhere from your browser. As exposed ports are on localhost, you need to tell your computer that canaille url means localhost.
To do that, you can add the following line to your /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 canaille
To launch containers, use:
cd demo
# To run the demo with the sql backend:
docker compose up
# To run the demo with the memory backend:
docker compose --file docker-compose-memory.yml up
# To run the demo with the LDAP backend:
docker compose --file docker-compose-ldap.yml up
# To run the demo with the sql backend:
./demo/run.sh
# To run the demo with the memory backend:
./demo/run.sh --backend memory
# To run the demo with the LDAP backend:
./demo/run.sh --backend ldap
Note
If you want to run the demo locally with the LDAP backend, you need to have
OpenLDAP installed on your system.
It is generally shipped under the slapd
or openldap
package name.
Warning
On Debian or Ubuntu systems, the OpenLDAP slapd binary usage might be restricted by apparmor, and thus makes the tests and the demo fail. This can be mitigated by removing apparmor restrictions on slapd.
sudo apt install --yes apparmor-utils
sudo aa-complain /usr/sbin/slapd
The demo database comes populated with some random users and groups. If you need more, you can generate
users and groups with the populate
command:
# If using docker:
docker compose exec canaille env CONFIG=conf-docker/canaille-ldap.toml uv run canaille populate --nb 100 users # or docker-compose
# If running in local environment
env CONFIG=conf/canaille-ldap.toml uv run canaille populate --nb 100 users
Adapt to use either the ldap or the sql configuration file. Note that this will not work with the memory backend.
To run the tests, you just can run uv run pytest and/or uv run tox to test all the supported python environments. Everything must be green before patches get merged.
To test a specific backend you can pass --backend memory
, --backend sql
or --backend ldap
to pytest and tox.
The test coverage is 100%, patches won't be accepted if not entirely covered. You can check the
test coverage with uv run pytest --cov --cov-report=html
or uv run tox -e coverage -- --cov-report=html
.
You can check the HTML coverage report in the newly created htmlcov directory.
We use ruff along with other tools to format our code.
Please run uv run tox -e style
on your patches before submitting them.
In order to perform a style check and correction at each commit you can use our
pre-commit configuration with uv run pre-commit install
.
The interface is built upon the Fomantic UI CSS framework. The dynamical parts of the interface use htmx.
- Using Javascript in the interface is tolerated, but the whole website MUST be accessible for browsers without Javascript support, and without any feature loss.
- Because of Fomantic UI we have a dependency to jQuery, however new contributions should not depend on jQuery at all. See the related issue.
The documentation is generated when the tests run:
tox -e doc
You can also run sphinx by hand, that should be faster since it avoids the tox environment initialization:
sphinx-build doc build/sphinx/html
The generated documentation is located at build/sphinx/html
.
- Check that dependencies are up to date with
uv sync --all-extras --upgrade
and update dependencies accordingly in separated commits; - Check that tests are still green for every supported python version, and that coverage is still at 100%, by running
uv run tox
; - Check that the demo environments are still working, both the local and the Docker one;
- Check that the :ref:`development/changelog:Release notes` section is correctly filled up;
- Increase the version number in
pyproject.toml
; - Commit with
git commit
; - Build with
uv build
; - Publish on test PyPI with
uv publish --publish-url https://test.pypi.org/legacy/
; - Install the test package somewhere with
pip install --extra-index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple --upgrade canaille
. Check that everything looks fine; - Publish on production PyPI
uv publish
; - Tag the commit with
git tag XX.YY.ZZ
; - Push the release commit and the new tag on the repository with
git push --tags
.