Artifakt

Artifact / File server - makes it easy to track customer deliveries or just a place to dump important files.

Features

• Files can be stored on the server either as single files or in bundles.
• The same file is not stored twice, content is tracked by their sha1 sums.
• Archive file list can be viewed.
• Text/code files can be viewed with syntax highlighting.
• Each file or bundle can be marked as delivered to a specific customer.
• Each file or bundle has threaded comments.
• The version control system origin of each file can be stored.
• Search functionality.

Getting Started

• python setup.py develop ( Recommended to use virtualenv )

SQLite:

• Verify that sqlalchemy.url in development.ini looks something like: sqlite:///%(here)s/artifakt.sqlite

MySQL:

• Enable mysqlclient in setup.py before running it.

• Create a new database named 'artifaktdb' in mysql

• Use the following command: CREATE DATABASE artifaktdb CHARACTER SET utf8;

• initialize_artifakt_db development.ini

• pserve development.ini

Settings

Some important settings to look at before running Artifakt.

artifakt/artifakt.yaml

• There are some hardcoded security strings in artifakt/artifakt.yaml. You should update them in a production setup.

production.ini / development.ini

• artifakt.storage: This points to the directory where all artifacts are stored.
• hosts: The address of the server.
• port: The port of the server.

Settings needed for sending mails

• mail.host: The smtp host name
• mail.port: The smtp port
• mail.queue_path: Path to a directory where queued emails are stored
• mail.default_sender: Sender address of emails from the system

To actually send the mails qp must be run periodically.

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