Hacking Arvados¶

Setting up your development environment:

• Arvbox uses docker containers to bring up a mini development cluster
• Hacking prerequisites: everything you need to run the test suite locally (manual configuration, not needed for Arvbox)
• Running tests for all components, like the Jenkins server does
• Arvswitch provides some shell functions that make it easy to switch between different Arvados instances

Development processes:

• Coding Standards
• Emacs and Go
• Updating dependencies
• Copyright and licenses

Learning about technologies:

• Go

Working on Arvados components:

• Hacking API server
• Hacking Keep
• Hacking Workbench
• Hacking SDKs
• Hacking Python SDK
• Hacking Ruby SDK
• Hacking Node Manager
• Hacking Websocket server
• Arvados-cwl-runner development
• Setting up an arvbox dev federation
• Hacking Workbench2

Running the very latest code:

• see http://doc.arvados.org/admin/upgrading.html

Testing:

• Manual testing plan

Releasing:

• Release checklist
• Releasing Java SDK packages