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About ARLAS Exploration

Built with :

  • Dropwizard - The REST framework
  • Maven - Dependency Management
  • Elasticsearch - A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine
  • Kafka - A distributed streaming platform
  • Angular - The web framework
  • D3js - Chart library
  • Node - The JavaScript runtime
  • NPM - The package manager
  • mapbox - The Map Engine

Contributing to ARLAS Exploration

ARLAS Exploration is an open source project and there are many ways to contribute.

Bug reports

If you think you have found a bug in ARLAS-server, first make sure that it has not been already addressed in our issues lists (e.g. server).

If not, provide as much information as you can to help us reproduce your bug :

  • ARLAS-server version and configuration file used
  • Elasticsearch version used
  • requests and data payloads to reproduce the bug
  • ARLAS-wui version and configuration file used
  • Angular version used
  • Browser version

Keep in mind that we will fix your problem faster if we can easily reproduce it.

Feature requests

If you think ARLAS Exploration lacks a feature, do not hesitate to open an issue on our issues lists on GitHub. Describe what you need, why you need it, and how it should work.

Code contribution and documentation changes

If you want to submit a bugfix or a feature implementation, first find or open an issue about it on our issues lists.

Prerequisites

ARLAS-server runs with JDK8 and is built/packaged with maven 3. Codebase follows IntelliJ default formatting rules.

ARLAS-wui runs with Angular and is built/packaged with yarn.

Fork and clone the repository

You will need to fork the main ARLAS-server repository and clone it to your local machine. See github help page for help.

Submitting your changes

When your code is ready, you will have to :

  • rebase your repository.
  • run ./scripts/test-integration.sh which should exit with a 0 status.
  • update documentation in docs/ and tests in src/test if relevant
  • submit a pull request with a proper title and a mention to the corresponding issue (eg "fix #1234").
  • never force push your branch after submitting, if you need to sync with official repository, you should better merge master into your branch.

Authors

This project has been initiated and is maintained by Gisaïa.

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to the Gisaïa Team