ISO Tracker

The ISO Tracker is the tool that the Ubuntu QA team uses to track the results of the testing during milestone testing. To know more about ISO testing, please read the ISO procedures.

Technically, it is a Drupal instance with some in-house developed modules, hosted at the ubuntu-qa-website project in Launchpad.

As of October 2014, this is a WIP to update this to the current best practices for getting a development environment.

Installing a development environment

The production qatracker runs on durpal7, php5.3 and lucid server.

These instructions are for drupal7 and PHP5 utilizing trusty, though lucid should also work fine.

Getting the dependencies

We need php, postgres, apache and drupal. It's important that you install php5 and drupal7 in order to ensure the qatracker will work. In addition, we will also need bzr to checkout the modules for the tracker from launchpad.

$ sudo apt-get install php5-pgsql postgresql apache2 drupal7 bzr

Installation Configuration Prompts

Postfix

Note, you may be prompted to configure postfix. Feel free to configure as you wish, or leave it as no configuration.

Drupal

Drupal will ask to configure a database, choose no. We will setup the database in a moment.

Setting up apache

Now, we will make the drupal7 instance point to the Apache root folder:

$ sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf 

Modify /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf to

<VirtualHost *:80>
        #NOWEBSTATS
        ServerName      162.213.35.125

        DocumentRoot    /usr/share/drupal7

        # Protect the '/scripts' directory.
        RewriteEngine on
        RewriteRule   ^/scripts(|/.*) http://%{SERVER_NAME}/ [R=301,L]
</VirtualHost>

Setting up the database

NOTE: This does not appear to be needed as drupal configures this by itself.

After installing drupal we are going to drop the default database, create a new postgres user called "qatracker" and a new database called "qatracker" as well:

$ sudo -u postgres -i

postgres$ dropdb drupal7
postgres$ dropuser drupal7

postgres$ createuser qatracker
postgres$ createdb qatracker

postgres$ psql template1

template1=# alter user qatracker with password 'qatracker';
template1=# \q

postgres$ exit

Populating the database

Although it is possible to load a copy of the production database, this is not recommended.

Configure Drupal7

Now, we are going to create a system user called "qatracker" and we are going to reconfigure drupal to use that user and both the user and database created before.

$ sudo adduser qatracker
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure drupal7

When adding the user, use a password of qatracker.

Drupal7 Reconfiguration

Follow the prompts: Reconfigure, select yes database, select psql connection method unix, select socket authentication method, select ident postgres authentication method, select ident database admin user, enter postgres username for drupal7, enter qatracker password for postgres application, leave blank (it will generate random password). If you wish, this can be set to a password of your choosing but should not be required. database name for drupal7, enter qatracker

Install qatracker modules

QATracker

Get the modules and theme from ubuntu-qa-website and copy them to your drupal7 installation:

$ bzr branch lp:ubuntu-qa-website
$ sudo cp -R ubuntu-qa-website/modules/* /usr/share/drupal7/modules/

Adding openid modules

Grab these 2 launchpad branches and copy them to the durpal7 modules folder. Later we will activate and configure them inside the admin interface.

$ bzr branch lp:~ubuntu-qa-website-devel/ubuntu-qa-website/drupal-launchpad-7.x drupal-launchpad
$ bzr branch lp:~ubuntu-drupal-devs/drupal-teams/7.x-dev/ drupal-teams 
$ sudo cp -R drupal-teams drupal-launchpad /usr/share/drupal7/modules

Apply the theme

The production instance uses the antonelli theme. Download and unpack it into /themes/.

$ wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/antonelli-7.x-1.0-rc1.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf antonelli-7.x-1.0-rc1.tar.gz 
$ sudo cp -R antonelli /usr/share/drupal7/themes/

Playing with your new instance

Apache

Activate the reqrite module and restart apache:

$ sudo a2enmod rewrite
$ sudo service apache2 restart

You should now have a running site.

Launch Drupal Wizard

Navigate to your new drupal site and follow the wizard.

http://localhost/drupal7/install.php

Upon completion you should have access to a basic site, and the admin interface for the tracker.

Once inside you should apply the proper theme, check the openid configuration and setup a site in the tracker admin. Also inside the tracker admin it's recommended you setup some sample products and testcases as sample data.