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Features

Natalie Adams edited this page 2021-04-08 20:31:56 +00:00

Table of Contents

• Description
• General
• Code Browser
• Issue Tracker
• Download Area
• Administration (project level)
• Administration (forge level)
• Other

Description

A list of features IDF offers

General

• Multiple projects with one installation.
• Support for many different SCM backends (a project can use Git while another monotone):

• git >= 1.5.4 (browse repository, create repository, update access rights and user SSH keys).
• Mercurial (browse repository, create repository, update access rights and user passwords).
• Subversion (browse repository, create repository, update access rights)
• monotone >= 0.99.1 (browse repository, create repository, update access rights and user keys) - new in 1.1.

• Available modules all configurable with multiple rights (anonymous, signed in, members and owners):

• Bug tracker
• Source browser
• Documentation wiki
• Download area
• Code review

Code Browser

• View latest changes by branch.
• Show changed files and their diffs, with ability to download the diff.
• Download and view of any file at any commit time with syntax highlighting for most text files.
• Download of a .zip file of any given commit.
• Commit messages parsed and automatically linked to issues, wiki pages, files and more.

Issue Tracker

• Simple interface with powerful and fast tagging capabilities.
• Support for file attachments for patches, images and more.
• Personal list of submitted or assigned bugs.
• Star issues to create watch lists.
• Percentage of closed bugs for a given label, allowing you to create milestone labels and see where you are with respect to your targets.
• Issue comments parsed and automatically linked to commits, wiki pages, files and more.

Download Area

• Upload, describe and tag your downloads.
• Track individual file downloads.

Administration (project level)

• Add and edit labels, templates, access rights
• Support for private projects.
• Easy registration of new people with email confirmation.
• Access rights management for the issues, downloads and source modules.
• Email notifications.

Administration (forge level)

• Versatile user and project management interface.
• Management of monotone's proxy usher (view open connections, server instance management) - new in 1.1

Other

• REST API with JSON answers.
• automatic association between commits and users.
• gravatar support.
• Atom feeds for recent changes.