/!\ Sauron v2 developpment is launch see https://github.com/drupal-sauron/monitoring /!\

Sauron

• You are a Drupal developer and you need to be aware of modules and core updates? Sauron can help you!

• You maintain a bunch of Drupal Web sites and need to get updates reports? Sauron can help you!

• You only have the source code of a Drupal project and need to get a summary of modules and core version? Sauron can help you!

• ...

About

Sauron is a python 2.7 application built on top of Fabric framework. It provides a few tasks to deal with Drupal :

• Generate a report of available updates for modules and core
• Run PHP_CodeSniffer and PHP_MessDetector of specific development

Example of HTML report

Install

On Debian based distribution

#>sudo aptitude install python2.7 python2.7-dev python-pip build-essential
#>sudo pip install fabric pyyaml requests HTML.py
#>git clone [email protected]:misterdoak/sauron.git

After installing Sauron, you need to copy main settings file : config/sauron_example.yml into config/sauron.yml and then edit it.

{
    "administrator": {
        "mail": "<sender email reports>",
        "mail_signature": {
            "html": "<em>-- This email is automatically generated by sauron.<em>",
            "text": "This email is automatically generated by sauron."
        }
        "mail_server": "localhost"
    },
    "application": {
        "projects_path": "<path where projects files are stored>",
        "sandbox_path": "<path where projects are checkout>",
        "report_path": "<path where reports will be stored>"
    }
}

The mail_server is optional. Its default value is localhost. You can specify the address of any SMTP server or the path to your sendmail binary if you want to use it instead of an SMTP server.

Using Sauron for your project(s)

For each project, you will need to create a <choose_name_project>.yml file. This contains information about your project :

• project : project name
• mail : list of recipients for sending report
• vcs : Sauron can fetch sources from Git OR Subversion
  • type : svn or git
  • url : svn url or git url
  • extra_args : extra arguments inserting in vcs checkout command
• drupal :
  • drupal_root : drupal root path relative to source code root path
  • contrib_paths : a list of contrib modules paths relative to drupal root path
  • display : (optionnal) a list of issue levels to display among : all, bug, security, uptodate. If not precised, everything will be displayed.
  • drupal_makefile : path to makefile relative to drupal root path
  • dev_paths : a list of specific modules paths relative to drupal root path
  • code_style :
    • phpcs_standard : path to PHP Code Sniffer Settings
    • phpmd_rules_file : path to PHP Mess Detectors rules file

For example :

{
    "project": "My project",
    "mail": ["<email>"],

    "vcs": {
        "type": "svn",
        "url": "https://github.com/misterdoak/sauron/trunk",
        "extra_args": ""
    },

    "drupal": {
        "drupal_root": "examples/no_makefile/drupal-7.32",
        "contrib_paths": ["sites/all/modules/contrib"],
        "dev_paths": ["sites/all/themes/custom"],
        "code_style":{
          "phpcs_standard":"/home/almor/phpqa/codesniffer/Drupal",
          "phpmd_rules_file":"/home/almor/phpqa/phpmd/phpmd.xml",
        }
    }
}

Here is an example of a git project using a makefile :

{
        "project": "My project",
        "mail": ["<email>"],

        "vcs": {
            "type": "git",
            "url": "[email protected]:misterdoak/sauron.git",
            "extra_args": "-b master"
        },

        "drupal": {
            "drupal_makefile": "examples/makefile/sauron.make"
        }
}

Launch tasks

Tasks must be launched through Fabric fab command in the same folder of fabfile.py.

List available tasks

#>fab -l
Available commands:

    code_style.check_codestyle  Check code style via PHPMess Detector and PHP...
    settings.load_settings      Load main settings and given project specific...
    update.check_update         Check contrib modules and core updates from s...
    versionning.checkout        Checkout project sources according to vcs con...

Launch Drupal updates check

#>fab settings.load_settings:project=myproject_git versionning.checkout update.check_update:send_mail=True

Launch Drupal code style check

#>fab settings.load_settings:project=myproject_git versionning.checkout code_style.check_codestyle:email=True

Schedule Drupal updates check every Thursday morning

Security issues are published every Wednesday, you can check every Thursday, early in the morning, modules updates availability. To do that, edit your crontab :

0 1 * * 4 <user> cd /path/to/sauron && fab settings.load_settings:project=myproject_git versionning.checkout update.check_update:send_mail=True > /dev/null 2>&1

Roadmap

• Add hacked check - Check if a contrib module or core has been modified
• Propose other report formats other than HTML