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WeBWorK Github Wiki

This github wiki is intended to be to be an addendum to the Development section of the WeBWorK wiki ---- Developers "category". In particular new users interested in getting started with their own WeBWorK server, or instructors looking to learn more about how to use WeBWorK in their classes, should take a look at one of the following resources:

• WeBWorK wiki - The main WeBWorK wiki
• Instructors - Information for Instructors
• Students - Information for Students
• Problem Authors - Information for Problem Authors
• WW_Install - Information for using the WW_install script
• Installation - Older information on installing WeBWorK by hand.
• Forum - The WeBWorK Forum
• Bugzilla - The main WeBWorK bugtracker
• Reporting Bugs - Information for reporting bugs.
• Frequently Asked Questions - A list of frequently asked questions.

Information for Developers

The following pages contain information for developers interested in submitting code to WeBWorK. In particular you can find information here on setting up your own github repository, and how to make a pull request and get it accepted into this repository.

• First Time Setup - Setting up your clone of this github repo for the first time.
• Coding and Workflow - Our suggested workflow processes. Following this will make it much easier to get code accepted into the repo.
• Branching and Release Model - Our philosophy for how WeBWorK branches and releases work.
• Creating Pull Requests - Instructions on how to submit a pull request.
• Merging Pull Requests - Instructions on how to review and merge other people's pull requests.
• Maintainers Only - Information for those with collaborator access to the repository.

WeBWorK3

The following pages contain information about the development version of the new WeBWorK3 interface. This is useful information for people wanting to install the interface on their own machines, people wanting to write new features, or port old features, for the new interface.

• Install WeBWorK3 - This contains information for installing WeBWorK3 on a fresh machine.
• Upgrade to WeBWorK3 - This contains information for getting WeBWorK3 running on an existing setup
• Deploy WeBWorK3 - This contains information for setting up WeBWorK3 so that it runs independently from apache in a robust way.
• WeBWorK3 and Perl Dancer - This contains background information on Perl Dancer, the system we are using to build WeBWorK3
• Developing for WeBWorK3 - This contains information for people interested in developing new features for WeBWorK3
• Testing WeBWorK3 - This contains a testing checklist for WeBWorK3