Developer resources

This page lists various websites, mailing lists etc. useful for GAP developers.

Version control

We currently use three GitHub organizations to handle GAP related stuff:

• gap-system hosts the source code for GAP itself, the main GAP website, and various central utilities

  • admins: Alexander Konovalov, Markus Pfeiffer, Max Horn, Steve Linton
  • the main GAP source code repository is at https://github.com/gap-system/gap
  • the source for GAP website is at https://github.com/gap-system/GapWWW

• gap-packages hosts repositories for many GAP packages

  • admins: Alexander Konovalov, Markus Pfeiffer, Max Horn, Steve Linton — we list all of them plus some additional hosted elsewhere at http://gap-packages.github.io/

• gap-infra hosts repositories used for testing of all GAP packages in various combinations, using Travis

  • admins: Alexander Konovalov, Markus Pfeiffer, Max Horn, Steve Linton

Mailing lists

• GAP discussion mailing list [email protected] — subscribe at https://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/gap
• GAP commit mailing list [email protected] — subscribe at https://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/commit

Contributing

• For information on how to contribute see the CONTRIBUTING.md.

Chat and other communication

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/gap_system
• Twitter for commit notifications only: https://twitter.com/gap_commits
• Slack chat discussions around the development and usage of GAP, GAP packages, etc.
  • admins: Alexander Konovalov, Chris Jefferson, Markus Pfeiffer

CI

• AppVeyor runs Windows tests on commits and pull requests — see https://ci.appveyor.com/project/gap-system/gap

  • admins: Alexander Konovalov, Chris Jefferson, Markus Pfeiffer, Max Horn, Steve Linton

• Travis CI runs Linux and Mac OS X tests on commits and pull requests

  • admins: any GitHub admin of the gap-system GitHub org ??
  • see https://travis-ci.org/gap-system/gap

• Codecov reports test coverage

  • admins: any GitHub admin of the gap-system GitHub org ?? — see https://codecov.io/gh/gap-system/gap (also Codecov explained)

• Coveralls also reports test coverage

  • admins: any GitHub admin of the gap-system GitHub org ??
  • see https://coveralls.io/github/gap-system/gap

• Jenkins: private CI instance run in St Andrews

  • admins: Alexander Konovalov
  • only reachable from within St Andrews network (also via VPN)
  • responsible for many tasks:
    • creates package distribution tarballs
    • triggers Docker image rebuilds on Docker Hub via cron job
    • ...

Docker

• Docker Hub

  • admins: Alexander Konovalov, Max Horn, Sebastian Gutsche
  • see https://cloud.docker.com/u/gapsystem/repository/list
  • source for our Docker images can be found here: https://github.com/gap-system?q=docker

• GitHub bot account, for use on Docker: https://github.com/gap-docker-bot

Miscellaneous

• Website https://www.gap-system.org
  • admins: Alexander Konovalov
  • hosted by the University of St Andrews
  • sources at https://github.com/gap-system/GapWWW