So I was staring at the spiffy new Gitlab container registry and really appreciating that it has a lot of boxes that are like "run this command to pull this container" or "run this command to login to the registry" and it struck me that it would be totally SUPER if girder had this same kind of functionality. Obviously it wouldn't be appropriate for all instances so you'd want it to be a pl

Motivation

FTSState is not a database column, but still in db/constants.py, that's why it has to be used with .name all over the code.

Modification

Migrate from db/constants.py to common/constants.py and replace the appropriate code parts with better checks.

When viewing and editing JSON, it is fairly common to have somewhat deeply nested items which become difficult to view in the browser. Switching the default indentation back to 2 spaces (instead of 4) will help.

Problem description

All external links use hardcoded links, as pointed out in #444. Some examples are in contrib/job.py and contrib/project.py

Proposed solution

Switch to intersphinx.

For some pointers, see https://github.com/glotzerlab/signac-docs/wiki/How-to-cross-reference-links-between-package-docs-and-signac