Documentation and Bug Tracking

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User Documentation

• CSS Applications -- The general idea behind CSS
• CompareProducts -- Compare the different distributions of CSS
• Workspaces -- Where to store files in CSS
• cs-studio-users -- User mailing list archive
• UserIdeas -- Place for elaborating ideas for future versions of CSS

Developer Documentation

• Roadmap -- Discussion and planning for future releases
• How to contribute -- How do you submit bug reports, patches and new plug-ins.
• Eclipse and CSS -- Explanation of terms, Links for Eclipse and CSS Development: Tutorials, ...
• SourceRepository -- Where to get the sources
• Ohloh Stats -- Source code statistics (note: 73% of all stats are made up)
• Plugins -- List of CSS Plugins w/ maintainer, short description
• DevelopmentGuidlines? -- Discussion on the Development procedures
• MercurialMigration -- Discussion on the migration of the repository from CVS to hg
• Git -- Discussion on the migration of the repository from hg to git, tools and usage
• BuildSystem -- Information on the build system, which can be run headless (without the UI) and creates the autoupdate site
• UpdateRepository -- Support for online updates or additions to CSS
• UnitTests -- Suggestions for automated tests
• IntroPages -- Suggestions for using the Eclipse Welcome/Intro
• TracGuide -- Documentation for Trac (this wiki and issue tracking)
• Access tickets in Eclipse/Mylyn
• HierarchicalPreferences -- How to customize CSS for your site
• JavaMessageServer -- Optional for logging, required for alarm handling
• MessageLog -- Persistent message log in relational database
• Localization -- How to add translations into other languages
• Products -- How to create site-specific products
• Authentication and Authorization
• http://cs-studio.sourceforge.net/docbook/ - CSS 'Guide': Guides through the steps of installing CSS with an Alarm and Archive system (as used by SNS)
• org.csstudio.ui.menu -- Defines the main CSS menu and popup
• cs-studio-core -- Developer mailing list archive

Collaborator Sites

• 'Main' CSS page on Source Forge: http://cs-studio.sourceforge.net/
• DESY: http://css.desy.de
• SNS: SNS Version of CSS, http://ics-web.sns.ornl.gov/css