CC Publisher Developer

CC Publisher is Creative Commons's tool for generating license information for a file and optionally uploading it to the Internet Archive for free hosting. ccPublisher also serves as a platform for development of other Creative Commons license-enabled tools. Our most recent release is ccPublisher 2_2.

Overview

• ccPublisher 2 Architecture Design documents for the ccPublisher 2.0 architecture (and P6 core).
• ccPublisher 2 Roadmap Target dates for releases and features to be included in each.
• Autogenerated API documentation (out of date)

Development

• ccTools Berlios Source repository information
• ccPublisher Prerequisites Dependencies needed for development work
• Developing ccPublisher
  • using command-line tools
  • with Eclipse
  • with Wing
• Translating ccPublisher Information on translating ccPublisher into additional languages
• Customizing ccPublisher 2
  • Customizing ccPublisher 2 Creating new versions of ccPublisher that support different metadata sets or different backends.
  • Extending ccPublisher Creating extensions to add functionality to ccPublisher
  • Writing a Storage Provider Adding support for new upload repositories to ccPublisher 2 and P6-based applications
• ccPublisher Release Procedure Information on creating releases and packages.

References / Prior Art / Other Implementations

• Extensible Desktop Applications with Zope 3 Nathan's presentation for PyCon 2006 and OSCON 2006.
• IT Conversations CN Uploader specs

Resources

• ccPublisher Tracker Bug reporting and feature request tracking
• Reporting Issues Information on submitting useful issue reports

ccPublisher 1.x

ccPublisher 2 is now at the point where it is more stable than ccPublisher 1.x. We recommend using the latest release of ccPublisher 2.

• Bug Tracker at SourceForge
• ccPublisher 1x Hacking How to get started with the ccPublisher 1.x source code