Documentation

• GnowsisProjectPlan - first thing for everybody
• GnowsisProjectStructure - where is which file?
• DeveloperFaq
• ​html documentation - plus Javadoc

Project guidelines:

• LoggingAndDebugging - using logging and debugging to find out what happens
• GnowsisTicketsAndWiki - what to put in tickets, what to put in the wiki
• Use meaningful SVN commit logs that outline the changes made - see ​commit guidelines or the ​committers guide

Get it running

Detailed installation instructions for developers: DevelopingFirstSteps

The subversion repository is

• ​https://gnowsis.opendfki.de/repos/gnowsis/branches/gnowsis0.9/

There you check out these projects, the most important projects to check out are:

• gnowsis
• gnowsis-server
• enquire2006
• kaukoluwiki (If you want kaokolu wiki)
• sesame1 (If you want the sesame web interface)

If you want to do Aperture development:

• Aperture in CVS: cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/aperture login
  • host: cvs.sourceforge.net
  • repository path: /cvsroot/aperture
  • connection type: pserver
  • username: anonymous
  • password: empty
• Checkout project aperture

Getting it to start

The gnowsis project has the launcher for you.

• If you have gnowsis checked out - the "run..." menu should have a list of favourites:
  • Windows start gnowsis
  • MacOSX start gnowsis
• The GnowsisInstaller will show. satisfy it.
• pressing close. gnowsis installs now silently. stand up, take a breath. think of something positive. notice the new simplicity. tell somebody a nice thing. sit down again.
• GnowsisProjectPlan - look here to see what we are doing at the moment and what will be done next.

Specific Fields of Development

• all GnowsisComponents
• ProblemsWithJunitTests
• EmailDeveloping - specific stuff related to e-mails
• ProblemsWithEclipse - what problems do we have and how to usually get them solved
• GnowsisOnTheMac - Mac OsX adaption
• ​gno-rdf-components - the gnogno-gui framework tutorial (from gnowsis.org website, latest version in SVN).
• GnowsisGuiTips - how to hack guis for gnowsis, brainstorm and concrete ideas.
• SearchDeveloping - developing the web-based desktop search and retrieval service
• InstallerDeveloping - howto make an installer, what can we use
• MozillaDeveloping - how to setup an environment to hack Mozilla XPI extensions
• AdapterDeveloping - how to write an adapter and make gnowsis use it?
• XmlRpcDeveloping - links for XMLRPC
• GnowsisConfiguration - where to put configuration files?
• GnowsisFixedUris - what are these static uris about?
• NicerGui - how to brushup the gui

Contributing

The first thing you might want to do is to write your own datasource, Gnowsis can deploy your own datasources without having to change the gnowsis code: See DynamicDatasources for more information! Then JoinGnowsis.