FAQ¶

For more KTH/CSC centric information, see the HPC Tutorial

General questions on the platform¶

What is Dryad ?¶

• Platform based on Redmine, using Ruby on Rails (RoR)
• Provides a set of tools for collaborative development
  • Bug Tracker: to file issues or requests for enhancement
  • Code Repositories: to share code with collaborators, possibly external to KTH
  • Wiki: to document your application and describe the development status
  • Time reporting: to track the time spent on projects
  • Code Review: to ensure code quality by peer-review

What features are provided ?¶

The front-end consists of a set of projects, possibly hierarchized (see the FEniCS-HPC project for instance)

• Each project can make use of a selection of components, accessible through tabs in the interface:
  • Issue tracking
  • Time tracking
  • News
  • Documents
  • Files
  • Wiki
  • Repository
  • Forums
  • Calendar
  • Gantt
  • Code reviews
• Access control based on roles: the access to a whole project or specific information provided by components of Redmine (Wiki, Repositories) can be controlled in a fine-grained fashion. These ones can be defined by Groups and Roles.
  • Groups : can be defined to assigned a set of users easily to projects.
  • Roles: can be defined to determine the credentials for differents actions of Redmine components.
    • Reporter : can post messages, view documents/planning/files/wiki/etc..., file an issue, view and browse repositories (but not commit)
    • Developer : Reporter + edition and commit rights
    • Manager : Developer + manage project and users
  • Other roles defined by CTL:
    • Student: retricted Developer (no issues management)
• Management of code repositories is only available with GIT

Where can I find help ?¶

• Site project holds the documentation
• You can:
  • file bugs related to the website
  • read or add documentation at the wiki
  • ask a question on the forum

Where to start ?¶

• The Homepage shows a list of the latest projects: only the public ones for unregistered users.
• Main entries can be reached through the top-left menu:

• Home: back to Homepage
• My Page: can be customized and lists by default the latest assigned and reported issues
• Projects: contains the detailed list of registered projects visible by the user
• Administrator: as usual, administration interface
• Help: link to the help on the Redmine website.

• Following a link to a project like DOLFIN-HPC, opens the overview page with the following elements:
  • Short description
  • Status of the bug tracker
  • List of members
  • Time tracking if enabled
  • ...

• Access to the different components (Wiki, Forums,..) activated for the project is made through the tabs: