Welcome¶

This site hosts a few items that can be of use to new (or even old) Arena developers. There are a number of things that this system provides:

• An Arena system in which to deploy a sample of your custom modules.
  • We are considering offering 3 versions of Arena:
    • The previous released version
    • The current stable version
    • and a daily alpha build.
• Access to Reporting Services to deploy sample reports.
• Direct access to the Windows Server via Remote Desktop Connection.
• Direct file copy (via RDC).
• A project and issue tracking service.
• Subversion SCM hosting service.
• All authentication is tied together (RDC, Arena, Redmine and SVN).
• Automatic backups of SVN repositories and databases.

There are a few things to note about this site:

• Authentication is all tied together. You have a single sign-on that provides access to all services.
• The software is Windows Server 2008 Datacenter and SQL Server 2008 Standard.
• Network access on the Windows Server is very limited and itself can only do the following network activities:
  • Web and Secure Web pages.
  • Mail (only to e-mail addresses that exist in the Arena database).
  • (Note: FTP is not supported, sorry).

Things to know about Redmine itself:

• Projects can be created by any registered user, if you create a project please follow the following guidelines:
  • Prefix the project name with your registered Arena Developer identify (usually your church initials) e.g. HDC Arena Mobile
  • For the project ID use the lowercase (and without spaces) version of your project name, if it is longer than 20 characters, improvise. :-)
• Each project supports the following features
  • Issue tracker with custom categories
  • News to announce anything important about your project
  • Documents (user documentation, example code, etc.). The document types are customizable but in a site-wide method, so please ask if you have a specific document type you want added
  • Wiki - The wiki supports some simple formatting help, but most common HTML tags have been enabled for use as well
  • Forums - You can create as many forums (Boards in Project Settings) as you wish, there is currently no way to set permissions on an individual forum
  • Files - This is where you would generally place a packaged release
  • Repository integration
    • The SCM repository can be just about any available: git, SVN, CVS, etc.
    • Each night the system will automatically create a local Subversion repository for your project if you have not set one
    • You may enter an external source control URL if you host your own repository that you want to tie into redmine

You can also take a look at projects written by the RefreshCache group.