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OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon)
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The OpenStack Dashboard is a Django based reference implementation of a web
based management interface for OpenStack.
It is based on the ``horizon`` module, which is designed to be a generic Django
app that can be re-used in other projects.
For more information about how to get started with the OpenStack Dashboard,
view the README file in the openstack-dashboard folder.
For more information about working directly with ``horizon``, see the
README file in the ``horizon`` folder.
For release management:
* https://launchpad.net/horizon
For blueprints and feature specifications:
* https://blueprints.launchpad.net/horizon
For issue tracking:
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon
Project Structure and Testing:
------------------------------
This project is a bit different from other OpenStack projects in that it has
two very distinct components underneath it: ``horizon``, and
``openstack-dashboard``.
The ``horizon`` directory holds the generic libraries and components that can
be used in any Django project. In testing, this component is set up with
buildout (see ``run_tests.sh``), and any dependencies that get added need to
be added to the ``horizon/buildout.cfg`` file.
The ``openstack-dashboard`` directory contains a reference Django project that
uses ``horizon`` and is built with a virtualenv and tested through that
environment. If dependencies are added that ``openstack-dashboard`` requires
they should be added to ``openstack-dashboard/tools/pip-requires``.
The ``run_tests.sh`` script invokes tests and analyses on both of these
components in its process, and is what Jenkins uses to verify the
stability of the project.
To run the tests::
$ ./run_tests.sh
Building Contributor Documentation
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This documentation is written by contributors, for contributors.
The source is maintained in the ``docs/source`` folder using
`reStructuredText`_ and built by `Sphinx`_
.. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
.. _Sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
* Building Automatically::
$ ./run_tests.sh --docs
* Building Manually::
$ export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=local.local_settings
$ python doc/generate_autodoc_index.py
$ sphinx-build -b html doc/source build/sphinx/html
Results are in the `build/sphinx/html` directory