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db: introduce constraint ensuring no duplicate (reviewer, pullrequest) combinations

A reviewer should only be added once to a review.

Previously, this was not ensured by the database itself, although that the
controller would try to not add duplicate reviewers. But there was no hard
guarantee: e.g. simultaneous adding of the same reviewer to the same review
by a review owner and admin, a framework bug that sends the same request
twice, ... could still trigger duplicate addition. Additionally, code
changes (e.g. a new API) could introduce bugs at the controller level.

Existing production databases were found to contain such duplicate entries.
Nevertheless, as the code displaying reviewers in a pull request filtered
out duplicates, this never showed in the UI, and never was a 'real' problem.

Add a UniqueConstraint in the database to prevent such entries, with a
database migration step that will first find and remove existing duplicates.
.. _customization:

=============
Customization
=============

There are several ways to customize Kallithea to your needs depending on what
you want to achieve.


HTML/JavaScript/CSS customization
---------------------------------

To customize the look-and-feel of the web interface (for example to add a
company banner or some JavaScript widget or to tweak the CSS style definitions)
you can enter HTML code (possibly with JavaScript and/or CSS) directly via the
*Admin > Settings > Global > HTML/JavaScript customization
block*.


Style sheet customization with Less
-----------------------------------

Kallithea uses `Bootstrap 3`_ and Less_ for its style definitions. If you want
to make some customizations, we recommend to do so by creating a ``theme.less``
file. When you create a file named ``theme.less`` in directory
``kallithea/front-end/`` inside the Kallithea installation, you can use this
file to override the default style. For example, you can use this to override
``@kallithea-theme-main-color``, ``@kallithea-logo-url`` or other `Bootstrap
variables`_.

After creating the ``theme.less`` file, you need to regenerate the CSS files, by
running::

    kallithea-cli front-end-build --no-install-deps

.. _bootstrap 3: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.3/
.. _bootstrap variables: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.3/customize/#less-variables
.. _less: http://lesscss.org/


Behavioral customization: rcextensions
--------------------------------------

Some behavioral customization can be done in Python using ``rcextensions``, a
custom Python package that can extend Kallithea functionality.

With ``rcextensions`` it's possible to add additional mappings for Whoosh
indexing and statistics, to add additional code into the push/pull/create/delete
repository hooks (for example to send signals to build bots such as Jenkins) and
even to monkey-patch certain parts of the Kallithea source code (for example
overwrite an entire function, change a global variable, ...).

To generate a skeleton extensions package, run::

    kallithea-cli extensions-create -c my.ini

This will create an ``rcextensions`` package next to the specified ``ini`` file.
See the ``__init__.py`` file inside the generated ``rcextensions`` package
for more details.


Behavioral customization: code changes
--------------------------------------

As Kallithea is open-source software, you can make any changes you like directly
in the source code.

We encourage you to send generic improvements back to the
community so that Kallithea can become better. See :ref:`contributing` for more
details.