Development

This section explains how to develop new modules for the Mandriva Management Console (MMC).

• Contributing to MMC with git
  • Repo setup
  • Using pull requests
  • Commit format
  • Commit directly in master
• Writing MMC scripts
• How to write a python module for the MMC agent
  • Related documentations
  • Creating a Python module
  • Python module configuration file
  • Exporting Python module API
  • How to launch shell commands inside a Python module
• How to write a PHP module for the MMC web interface
  • Related documentations
  • MMC Page format
  • How MMC pages are displayed
  • PHP module structure
  • Module declaration: infoPackage.inc.php
  • How to render a page
  • The MMC widget framework
  • Useful MMC widgets
• Internationalization and localization
• Style guide for python code
  • Introduction
  • Code layout
  • Whitespace in Expressions and Statements
  • Naming conventions
  • Comments
  • Docstrings
  • Python module import rules
  • SQLAlchemy code convention
  • Tools to check Python code
  • Python language version compatibility
  • Python additional library compatibility
  • Python code copyright header
• Style guide for PHP code
  • Introduction
  • Code layout
  • Code indentation and organisation
  • Comments
  • Naming conventions
  • PHP language version compatibility
  • PHP error reporting level
  • PHP code copyright header
• MMC projects release guidelines
  • Release components
  • Preparing a new release