Openproject

[zarelit]

Project description

Web based open source project management software. It is based on rails (like Redmine or Gitlab) but has some moving parts e.g. cache, database, etc

Metadata

• homepage URL: https://www.openproject.org/
• source URL: https://github.com/opf/openproject
• license: GNU General Public License version 3
• platforms: linux, darwin

Existing work

Package/service originally requested in #164019 , but a separate issue is needed due to the size of the application.

The Gemfile of the application use features not yet handled by bundix (see: nix-community/bundix#84)

The project seems to have some nix related files in their sources: https://github.com/opf/openproject/tree/dev/nix

[bendlas]

@b12f is this one yours? https://git.pub.solar/b12f/openproject-nix
Are there any major packaing tasks open for it?

[b12f]

Yes that's mine. That attempt is entirely unfinished.

I'm too inexperienced in ruby/gemfile packaging to handle the internal linking that openproject does with its gems. OpenProject recently started using Turbo next to the Angular frontend, so building the frontend is probably also a bit more involved than it used to be. There's also a bunch of tooling in the setup that is only half-reproducible, like the precompilation of assets.

I'm a former employee of OP, and the team there is really nice around contributions. There are scraps of a nix devshell left in the repo, and I know there's at least one current employee still using nix. If you're interested in packaging this, I'd be interested in helping out or tagging along.

[goatastronaut0212]

@b12f Even though I don't have much experience with Ruby, but I would love to challenge myself to port it to NixOS and I have no clues where I should start though? I would love to receive a little help from you, is there any way to contact you easily?

[bendlas]

I've forked your flake and based some work on that, @b12f: https://github.com/bendlas/openproject-nix

The ruby build seems to work now, now working on the angular build ...

EDIT1 frontend build works, continuing with start scripts (web, ...)
EDIT2 I'm able to start the web app + background services, added nixos module to flake

[bendlas]

there's at least one current employee still using nix

@b12f would you mind making an introduction? happy to have them participate here or to contact me privately.

With the packaging + module now rough cut, I'll work on implementing options + sane defaults as needed and any input on best practices would be greatly appreciated!

I also have a few questions and ideas, e.g. around:

• making state directory configurable, so that I can get rid of this abomination: https://github.com/bendlas/openproject-nix/blob/6a9aab86770b8d06fb93ddfc7f84cb074e1da2b7/ruby/openproject.nix#L128-L129
• decompose entry points, particularly the while true loop in what's called "cron"
  • see https://github.com/opf/openproject/blob/6bd908009c8b3061ac72547f794c9894f8680af6/docker/prod/cron#L11
  • vs https://github.com/bendlas/openproject-nix/blob/6a9aab86770b8d06fb93ddfc7f84cb074e1da2b7/module.nix#L113-L124

[zarelit]

Thanks for your work @bendlas ! What did you use to produce gemset.nix, inscapist/ruby-nix ?
EDIT: Nevermind, I read the bundix issue comment now :-)

[maedas]

Very interested in seeing any progress on this, hope you can figure out how to finish the packaging!

[b12f]

@maedas they've published it here https://github.com/bendlas/openproject-nix