Revision as of 05:30, 8 January 2013

General Questions

Is there some documentation?

There is a ​Quick Walkthrough available showing the most important screens and concepts. Besides that, just start exploring Skalli yourself! Download and run the all-in-one installation. It includes a bunch of example projects to play with. Search for projects you are interested in or just wander through the ​project hierarchy. Consume the information projects provide on their detail pages. A good starting point may be ​Skalli's own landing page.

What is Skalli about?

Skalli is about searching for and publishing of useful information about projects. And with project we do not necessarily mean software projects, although with the currently existing plugins and extensions it is best suited for software projects. Each project has a detail page collecting all information the project owners maintained for that project, or Skalli was able to derive from other sources. Typcially you'll find links to the project's source code, wiki pages and other documentation, contact information like mailing lists and a list of people involved with the project. Furthermore, Skalli provides some self-service, e.g. a Gerrit connector to create Git repositories for a project.

Is Skalli extensible?

Yes, and that was one of the most important design goals from the beginning. You can extends the project model, the UI and the backend. The technology used for extensions is based on OSGi services. Check out the tutorials on how to implement extensions for Skalli.

What technology is Skalli based on?

Skalli is a native OSGi application running on any OSGI-enabled web container, such as Virgo or Jetty RT. The user interface is a mixture of plain JSP and embedded ​Vaadin components.