Release Readiness Dashboard

Dashboards for tracking Release Statuses of Mozillian Awesomeness.
Change logs, progress updates and latest developments on this spreadsheet

Deployment

Configuring the Database credentials

• Environment development stored in /application/config/database.php
• Environment production stored in /application/config/production/database.php
  • Actual file is gitignored to protect your private credentials
  • Template is saved as /application/config/production/database_template.php
  • Use inline variables when deployed as Stackato application with a binded MySQL service

Instructions for deployment on Stackato

1. Clone the repository onto your local machine
2. Setup production database credentials as specified above
3. Open /stackato.yml and modify the following:
   • name Sub-domain where the dashboard will be accessed
   • The rest of the configs have already been setup for you
4. $ cd into the root directory of the cloned repository using Terminal
5. Assuming that stackato is already installed, execute $ stackato push
6. The web application is now live on the internet
   • Application’s database (MySQL service) is set up but still empty
   • Populate the database with data in /assets/sql/dataset.sql by:
     • Tunnel into the MySQL service via Stackato
     • OR Deploy phpMyAdmin for Stackato (recommended)
7. In future, update the code base by using Terminal:
   • $ cd into the dashboard’s repository on your local machine
   • Run the command for $ stackato update [dashboard's appname]

Instructions for deploying phpMyAdmin on Stackato

1. Clone this repository onto your local machine
2. Open /stackato.yml and modify the following:
   • name Sub-domain where phpMyAdmin will be accessed
   • services Remove MySQL from being created (not needed)
   • PMA_USERNAME Login credentials for accessing phpMyAdmin
   • PMA_PASSWORD Login credentials for accessing phpMyAdmin
3. $ cd into the root directory of the cloned repository using Terminal
4. Assuming that stackato is already installed, execute $ stackato push
5. phpMyAdmin is now live on the internet
   • However, it is still not binded to the application’s database. To do this:
     • Identify the MySQL service that was created with the dashboard application
     • Run the command for $ stackato bind-service <servicename> [phpMyAdmin's appname]
     • Logging into phpMyAdmin should now display all the schema and data used by the dashboard

Instructions for deployment on other hosting services

• Standard Web Stack: Apache, MySQL, PHP 5.3 and above
• For deployment on local machine, try LAMP, MAMP or WAMP

URL Walkthrough

Landing page

• Accessed through “/“ or “/overview”
• Provides an overview of all active versions
• Executes from: /application/controllers/overview.php/index
• More details…

Version page

• Accessed through “/for/[product]/[version]”
• Provides a detailed view of a specific version
• Executes from: /application/controllers/watch.php/single
• More details about groups of queries…
• More details about group rules…

Administrator login page

• Accessed through “/admin”
• Allows a whitelisted user to sign in using Persona
• Executes from: /application/controllers/admin.php/index

Qb query builder page

• Accessed through “/admin/easy_qb”
• Translates Bugzilla URLs into Qb queries
• Executes from: /application/controllers/admin.php/easy_qb
• More details…

User guide page

• Accessed through “/admin/help” or “/help”
• Read-able manual to help with getting started
• Executes from: /application/controllers/admin.php/help

Update components

• Accessed through “/admin/update_components”
• Grabs product components from Bugzilla and updates database
• Executes from: /application/controllers/admin.php/update_components

Update cycle

• Accessed through “/admin/update_cycle”
• Checks for new cycle and updates accordingly
• Automatically called when a current cycle is not found
• Executes from: /application/controllers/admin.php/update_cycle
• More details…

Testing

Unit tests

• Accessed and run through “/test”
• Currently testing CRUD for version model and helper functions
• Needs unit tests for other models as well as functions derived from base CRUD
• Creates a test version on each run, uses it then deletes it immediately at the end

Troubleshoot

Reach out to Willie Cheong for undocumented problems.

References

• CodeIgniter: Server side PHP framework
• CI Blades: Laravel style blade templating on CodeIgniter
• CI RestServer: Support for REST APIs on CodeIgniter
• Qb: Qb queries on Bugzilla’s ElasticSearch clusters
• Persona: Email authentication service
• D3-Rickshaw: Javascript-based graphing tool
• Twitter Bootstrap: Beautiful user interfaces
• Spectrum: Beautiful colourpicker widget
• Font Awesome: Beautiful HTML icons
• Gridster: Beautiful grid boxes

License

Mozilla Public Liscense v2.0