tagline: From openSUSE There are different subsystems making up
the Hermes system. They're described briefly in this chapter. -
the herminator (the API that is notified by e.g. the
buildservice to send messages) - the generator (makes messages
from the notifications that hermiantor recieved) - the worker
(sends out the messages as mail or rss or whatsoever) - starship
(a web application to configure at a recipient level which
messages to receive in which way) - the baselibs (well,
baselibs) - the database (the shared storage of all subsystems
Herminator is the Hermes server offering a http interface to
notify or send messages. Herminator was written in perl and uses
the CGI::Application framework to implement the http server.
Apache is recommended as http server to power Herminator. Note
that at the current stage Herminator *must not* be opened to the
internet because that would be a perfect spamming platform:
posting messages and notifications is not restricted at the
moment. Of course it could be secured by