Repositorium

Web Engine for Collective Repositories. Based principally on CakePHP and MySQL

Initiated and mainly directed by Jérémy Barbay. Participating students listed in Section (Academic) History

Installation

Requirements

• MySQL 5.1
• PHP 5.3 (any php5 should work fine too)
• Apache 2.2

Getting the source

Open a console and get the source

git clone git://github.com/mquezadav/repositorium.git

Configuration

Then you’ll have a copy of the source at local.

Create the following folders and give these permissions (some of them already exist):

• chmod o+w app/tmp
• chmod o+w app/tmp/cache
• chmod -R o+w app/tmp/cache/persistent
• chmod -R o+w app/tmp/cache/models
• chmod -R o+w app/tmp/logs

Copy database.php.default to database.php, and core.php.default to core.php, and bootstrap.php.default to bootstrap.php in app/config.

Edit database.php:

var $default = array(
    'driver' => 'mysql',
    'persistent' => false,
    'host' => '<HOST>',
    'login' => '<LOGIN>',
    'password' => '<PASSWORD>',
    'database' => '<DBNAME>',
    'prefix' => '',
);

Change <HOST>, <LOGIN>, <PASSWORD> and <DBNAME> (database name) to the correspoding values in your system

Initial DB Dump

1. To load the dump file (repositorium.sql) with initial data (users: admin and anonymous). It contains no documents and no criteria.

   mysql -u <LOGIN> -p <PASSWORD> <DBNAME> < repositorium.sql

2. Now you have 2 users: anonymous and admin. The admin user has the following atributes
   • Login: [email protected]
   • Password: password
3. Then add a criteria, and then some documents or users.

Security

At core.php file (app/config/), at lines 204 and 209, randomly modify some alphanumeric characters of the corresponding Salt and Cypher Seed. Example:

Configure::write('Security.salt', '<SOME LONG RANDOM STRING>');

This changes’ll avoid keeping the same session at different app clones, and for security sake.

(Academic) History:

1. 2011A: Initial project
   • Project for course “CC5401 - Ingenieria de software”

Departamento de Ciencias de la Computacion (DCC), University of Chile

• Staff:

1. Jérémy Barbay -jyby@github (course client)
2. Hernan Fierro (project manager)
3. Pablo Estefo - pestefo@github (analyst)
4. Felipe Banados - fbanados@github (designer)
5. Nicolas Perez - thomaslight@github (developer)
6. Mauricio Quezada - mquezadav@github (developer)
7. David Contreras - dcontrer@github (tester)
   • Object:

• creation of the first version of the prototype:
  • only text fragments
  • simple parameterized quality control
  • one single repository per server
  1. 2011A: Multi community
     • Internship
     • Staff:

1. Jérémy Barbay - jyby@github (advisor)
2. Mauricio Quezada - mquezadav@github (developer)
   • Object:

• Clean the code and correct some bugs
• Extend the engine to support multiple repositories, each with its own parameters and url.
• install an instance of the engine at http://repositorium.cl
  1. 2011B: Repositorium for Students
     • Internship
     • Staff:

1. Jérémy Barbay - jyby@github (advisor)
2. Carlos Gajardo - cgajardo@github (developer)
   • Object:

• Add support for file attachments
• fill a repository with education files (e.g. pdf of past exams) for students, inspired by the project Sensei (now collapsing for lack of participation)
• propose to some students to use the new repository
• survey student usage of the new repository
  1. 2011B: Repositorium for Professors
     • Internship
     • Staff:

1. Jérémy Barbay - jyby@github (advisor)
2. Hernan Fierro (developer)
   • Object:

• correction of various bugs
• implementation of the bug and feature management
• Add support of visualisation features (e.g. LaTeX, HTML, etc…)
• fill some repositories with pedagogical material (e.g. solved problems to compose assignments and exams) for professors, inspired by existing ad-hoc repositories (without quality control nor incentive to contribute)
• propose to some professors to use the new repositories
• survey professor usage of the new repositories.
  1. 2011B
     • Project for course “CC5401 - Ingenieria de software”

Departamento de Ciencias de la Computacion (DCC), University of Chile

• Staff:

1. Jérémy Barbay -jyby@github (course client)
2. César Campos -ccampos@github (project manager)
3. Rodrido Peralta -(analyst)
4. Leonardo Rojas -LeoRojas@github (developer)
5. Matias Bensan -(designer)
6. Rafael Meruane -(tester)
   • Object:

• Detection and management of duplicated material
  • Main aim to counteract the simplest attack consisting to resubmit exact copies or minor variants of documents already in the repository.
  • DOES NOT aim to implement advanced “plagiarism” detection.
• Added tag-cloud.
• Search for title and contents.