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js: use ajax requests for select2 autocomplete

When you have a big user base, with thousends of users, always using the whole
dataset makes the UI slow.

This will replace kallithea/model/repo.py get_users_js and get_user_groups_js
which were used to inline the full list of users and groups in the document.
Instead, it will expose a json service for doing the completion.

When using the autocomplete, there might be multiple ajax requests, but tests
with a userbase > 9000 showed no problems.
And keep in mind, that although we now make multiple requests (one for every
character) that
- the autocomplete is not used that often
- the requests are quite cheap
- most importanly, we no longer need to calculate the user list/group list if
the user doesn't use the autocomplete

Users and groups are still passed as parameters to the javascript functions -
they will be removed later.

.. _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*.


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::

    gearbox make-rcext -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.