JS Admin README

Title: JS-ADMIN-README Abstract: An ultra-basic README for JabberStudio admins. Author: stpeter Version: 0.1 Last Updated: 2005-10-14

There are two main tasks related to JabberStudio administration:

1. Creating new JS users on zeus 2. Creating new JS projects

1.0 CREATING JS USERS

Web users are different from system users. Developers need to be system users with a shell account on zeus in order to check in code and modify their project websites. Here's how to create system users:

- Log into zeus (you're soaking in it) - Type 'jsadduser username email' (make the system name the same as the person's JS web username if possible) - When prompted, type the person's Full Name - Skip the Room Number, Work Phone, and Home Phone - For Other, type the person's email address

When you're done, the jsadduser script will send an email to the new shell user.

2.0 CREATING JS PROJECTS

This is a two-part process: you need to access the web interface and also run the jsaddproject script on zeus. You MUST run the jsaddproject script before you hit the "Add" button on the "Add A Project" page!

Note: I tend to "interview" the project requester via Jabber because sometimes people are confused about whether they even really need a JabberStudio project. Also, several years ago, temas and I decided that JS is for hosted projects only (projects that check in code), not the old-style projects that point to code elsewhere. Remember, JS is like SourceForge, not Freshmeat.

OK, here goes:

- Log into http://www.jabberstudio.org/ - Click the "Site Administration" link at the top right - Click "Add A Project" from the "Site Admin" menu - Fill out the form as follows:

 - Project Name: this is the friendly name, can contain spaces etc.
 - System Name: this is the system name, no spaces or caps etc.
 - Owner: this is the project owner's web username, not system username
 - Homepage: http://projectname.jabberstudio.org/ or URL of project owner's
   choice
 - Content Management URL: leave it blank *
 - Description: Project description as provided by project owner, edit as
   necessary (I always do!)
 - Type: Normal
 - License: FOSS license for project code (if you need to add a new one,
   ping me)
 - Platforms: General unless a client, then choose appropriate computing
   platform (if you need to add a new one, ping me)
 - Programming Language: Main code language for project code
 - Category: Choose one
 - Allow Anonymous Comments: uncheck *
 - Allow Anonymous Submissions: uncheck *

• I don't know what these are for!

Now, BEFORE you hit the "Add" button, do the following!

1. Double-check the form 2. Run the jsaddproject script:

  jsaddproject project-name owner-shell-account email-address group-name

  Where...

  - project-name = short system name from web form
  - owner-shell-account = project owner's shell account name from jsadduser
  - email-address = project owner's email address
  - group-name = short group name to be added to /etc/group (usually this is
    just the same as the project-name)

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