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+                        <h1 id="how-to-test-cas-as-a-developer-without-a-server"><a class="header" href="#how-to-test-cas-as-a-developer-without-a-server">How to test CAS as a developer without a server</a></h1>
+<p>The <a href="https://github.com/jbittel/django-mama-cas">django-mama-cas</a> project is an
+easy to run CAS implementation built on top of Django.</p>
+<h2 id="prerequisites"><a class="header" href="#prerequisites">Prerequisites</a></h2>
+<ol>
+<li>Create a new virtualenv: <code>python3 -m venv &lt;your virtualenv&gt;</code></li>
+<li>Activate your virtualenv: <code>source /path/to/your/virtualenv/bin/activate</code></li>
+<li>Install Django and django-mama-cas:
+<pre><code>python -m pip install &quot;django&lt;3&quot; &quot;django-mama-cas==2.4.0&quot;
+</code></pre>
+</li>
+<li>Create a Django project in the current directory:
+<pre><code>django-admin startproject cas_test .
+</code></pre>
+</li>
+<li>Follow the <a href="https://django-mama-cas.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html#configuring">install directions</a> for django-mama-cas</li>
+<li>Setup the SQLite database: <code>python manage.py migrate</code></li>
+<li>Create a user:
+<pre><code>python manage.py createsuperuser
+</code></pre>
+<ol>
+<li>Use whatever you want as the username and password.</li>
+<li>Leave the other fields blank.</li>
+</ol>
+</li>
+<li>Use the built-in Django test server to serve the CAS endpoints on port 8000:
+<pre><code>python manage.py runserver
+</code></pre>
+</li>
+</ol>
+<p>You should now have a Django project configured to serve CAS authentication with
+a single user created.</p>
+<h2 id="configure-synapse-and-element-to-use-cas"><a class="header" href="#configure-synapse-and-element-to-use-cas">Configure Synapse (and Element) to use CAS</a></h2>
+<ol>
+<li>Modify your <code>homeserver.yaml</code> to enable CAS and point it to your locally
+running Django test server:
+<pre><code class="language-yaml">cas_config:
+  enabled: true
+  server_url: &quot;http://localhost:8000&quot;
+  service_url: &quot;http://localhost:8081&quot;
+  #displayname_attribute: name
+  #required_attributes:
+  #    name: value
+</code></pre>
+</li>
+<li>Restart Synapse.</li>
+</ol>
+<p>Note that the above configuration assumes the homeserver is running on port 8081
+and that the CAS server is on port 8000, both on localhost.</p>
+<h2 id="testing-the-configuration"><a class="header" href="#testing-the-configuration">Testing the configuration</a></h2>
+<p>Then in Element:</p>
+<ol>
+<li>Visit the login page with a Element pointing at your homeserver.</li>
+<li>Click the Single Sign-On button.</li>
+<li>Login using the credentials created with <code>createsuperuser</code>.</li>
+<li>You should be logged in.</li>
+</ol>
+<p>If you want to repeat this process you'll need to manually logout first:</p>
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+<li>http://localhost:8000/admin/</li>
+<li>Click &quot;logout&quot; in the top right.</li>
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@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ Make sure that you have saved all your files.</p>
 <pre><code class="language-sh">source ./env/bin/activate
 ./scripts-dev/lint.sh path/to/file1.py path/to/file2.py path/to/folder
 </code></pre>
-<h2 id="run-the-unit-tests"><a class="header" href="#run-the-unit-tests">Run the unit tests.</a></h2>
+<h2 id="run-the-unit-tests-twisted-trial"><a class="header" href="#run-the-unit-tests-twisted-trial">Run the unit tests (Twisted trial).</a></h2>
 <p>The unit tests run parts of Synapse, including your changes, to see if anything
 was broken. They are slower than the linters but will typically catch more errors.</p>
 <pre><code class="language-sh">source ./env/bin/activate
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ trial tests.rest.admin.test_room tests.handlers.test_admin.ExfiltrateData.test_i
 <p>To increase the log level for the tests, set <code>SYNAPSE_TEST_LOG_LEVEL</code>:</p>
 <pre><code class="language-sh">SYNAPSE_TEST_LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG trial tests
 </code></pre>
-<h2 id="run-the-integration-tests"><a class="header" href="#run-the-integration-tests">Run the integration tests.</a></h2>
+<h2 id="run-the-integration-tests-a-hrefhttpsgithubcommatrix-orgsytestsytesta"><a class="header" href="#run-the-integration-tests-a-hrefhttpsgithubcommatrix-orgsytestsytesta">Run the integration tests (<a href="https://github.com/matrix-org/sytest">Sytest</a>).</a></h2>
 <p>The integration tests are a more comprehensive suite of tests. They
 run a full version of Synapse, including your changes, to check if
 anything was broken. They are slower than the unit tests but will
@@ -334,6 +334,29 @@ configuration:</p>
 <pre><code class="language-sh">$ docker run --rm -it -v /path/where/you/have/cloned/the/repository\:/src:ro -v /path/to/where/you/want/logs\:/logs matrixdotorg/sytest-synapse:py37
 </code></pre>
 <p>This configuration should generally cover  your needs. For more details about other configurations, see <a href="https://github.com/matrix-org/sytest/blob/develop/docker/README.md">documentation in the SyTest repo</a>.</p>
+<h2 id="run-the-integration-tests-a-hrefhttpsgithubcommatrix-orgcomplementcomplementa"><a class="header" href="#run-the-integration-tests-a-hrefhttpsgithubcommatrix-orgcomplementcomplementa">Run the integration tests (<a href="https://github.com/matrix-org/complement">Complement</a>).</a></h2>
+<p><a href="https://github.com/matrix-org/complement">Complement</a> is a suite of black box tests that can be run on any homeserver implementation. It can also be thought of as end-to-end (e2e) tests.</p>
+<p>It's often nice to develop on Synapse and write Complement tests at the same time.
+Here is how to run your local Synapse checkout against your local Complement checkout.</p>
+<p>(checkout <a href="https://github.com/matrix-org/complement"><code>complement</code></a> alongside your <code>synapse</code> checkout)</p>
+<pre><code class="language-sh">COMPLEMENT_DIR=../complement ./scripts-dev/complement.sh
+</code></pre>
+<p>To run a specific test file, you can pass the test name at the end of the command. The name passed comes from the naming structure in your Complement tests. If you're unsure of the name, you can do a full run and copy it from the test output:</p>
+<pre><code class="language-sh">COMPLEMENT_DIR=../complement ./scripts-dev/complement.sh TestBackfillingHistory
+</code></pre>
+<p>To run a specific test, you can specify the whole name structure:</p>
+<pre><code class="language-sh">COMPLEMENT_DIR=../complement ./scripts-dev/complement.sh TestBackfillingHistory/parallel/Backfilled_historical_events_resolve_with_proper_state_in_correct_order
+</code></pre>
+<h3 id="access-database-for-homeserver-after-complement-test-runs"><a class="header" href="#access-database-for-homeserver-after-complement-test-runs">Access database for homeserver after Complement test runs.</a></h3>
+<p>If you're curious what the database looks like after you run some tests, here are some steps to get you going in Synapse:</p>
+<ol>
+<li>In your Complement test comment out <code>defer deployment.Destroy(t)</code> and replace with <code>defer time.Sleep(2 * time.Hour)</code> to keep the homeserver running after the tests complete</li>
+<li>Start the Complement tests</li>
+<li>Find the name of the container, <code>docker ps -f name=complement_</code> (this will filter for just the Compelement related Docker containers)</li>
+<li>Access the container replacing the name with what you found in the previous step: <code>docker exec -it complement_1_hs_with_application_service.hs1_2 /bin/bash</code></li>
+<li>Install sqlite (database driver), <code>apt-get update &amp;&amp; apt-get install -y sqlite3</code></li>
+<li>Then run <code>sqlite3</code> and open the database <code>.open /conf/homeserver.db</code> (this db path comes from the Synapse homeserver.yaml)</li>
+</ol>
 <h1 id="9-submit-your-patch"><a class="header" href="#9-submit-your-patch">9. Submit your patch.</a></h1>
 <p>Once you're happy with your patch, it's time to prepare a Pull Request.</p>
 <p>To prepare a Pull Request, please:</p>
@@ -496,7 +519,7 @@ flag to <code>git commit</code>, which uses the name and email set in your
 <p>By now, you know the drill!</p>
 <h1 id="notes-for-maintainers-on-merging-prs-etc"><a class="header" href="#notes-for-maintainers-on-merging-prs-etc">Notes for maintainers on merging PRs etc</a></h1>
 <p>There are some notes for those with commit access to the project on how we
-manage git <a href="docs/dev/git.html">here</a>.</p>
+manage git <a href="docs/development/git.html">here</a>.</p>
 <h1 id="conclusion"><a class="header" href="#conclusion">Conclusion</a></h1>
 <p>That's it! Matrix is a very open and collaborative project as you might expect
 given our obsession with open communication. If we're going to successfully
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+                        <h1 id="some-notes-on-how-we-use-git"><a class="header" href="#some-notes-on-how-we-use-git">Some notes on how we use git</a></h1>
+<h2 id="on-keeping-the-commit-history-clean"><a class="header" href="#on-keeping-the-commit-history-clean">On keeping the commit history clean</a></h2>
+<p>In an ideal world, our git commit history would be a linear progression of
+commits each of which contains a single change building on what came
+before. Here, by way of an arbitrary example, is the top of <code>git log --graph b2dba0607</code>:</p>
+<img src="img/git/clean.png" alt="clean git graph" width="500px">
+<p>Note how the commit comment explains clearly what is changing and why. Also
+note the <em>absence</em> of merge commits, as well as the absence of commits called
+things like (to pick a few culprits):
+<a href="https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/commit/84691da6c">“pep8”</a>, <a href="https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/commit/474810d9d">“fix broken
+test”</a>,
+<a href="https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/commit/c9d72e457">“oops”</a>,
+<a href="https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/commit/836358823">“typo”</a>, or <a href="https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/commit/707374d5d">“Who's
+the president?”</a>.</p>
+<p>There are a number of reasons why keeping a clean commit history is a good
+thing:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>
+<p>From time to time, after a change lands, it turns out to be necessary to
+revert it, or to backport it to a release branch. Those operations are
+<em>much</em> easier when the change is contained in a single commit.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>Similarly, it's much easier to answer questions like “is the fix for
+<code>/publicRooms</code> on the release branch?” if that change consists of a single
+commit.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>Likewise: “what has changed on this branch in the last week?” is much
+clearer without merges and “pep8” commits everywhere.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>Sometimes we need to figure out where a bug got introduced, or some
+behaviour changed. One way of doing that is with <code>git bisect</code>: pick an
+arbitrary commit between the known good point and the known bad point, and
+see how the code behaves. However, that strategy fails if the commit you
+chose is the middle of someone's epic branch in which they broke the world
+before putting it back together again.</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>One counterargument is that it is sometimes useful to see how a PR evolved as
+it went through review cycles. This is true, but that information is always
+available via the GitHub UI (or via the little-known <a href="https://help.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/checking-out-pull-requests-locally">refs/pull
+namespace</a>).</p>
+<p>Of course, in reality, things are more complicated than that. We have release
+branches as well as <code>develop</code> and <code>master</code>, and we deliberately merge changes
+between them. Bugs often slip through and have to be fixed later. That's all
+fine: this not a cast-iron rule which must be obeyed, but an ideal to aim
+towards.</p>
+<h2 id="merges-squashes-rebases-wtf"><a class="header" href="#merges-squashes-rebases-wtf">Merges, squashes, rebases: wtf?</a></h2>
+<p>Ok, so that's what we'd like to achieve. How do we achieve it?</p>
+<p>The TL;DR is: when you come to merge a pull request, you <em>probably</em> want to
+“squash and merge”:</p>
+<p><img src="img/git/squash.png" alt="squash and merge" />.</p>
+<p>(This applies whether you are merging your own PR, or that of another
+contributor.)</p>
+<p>“Squash and merge”<sup id="a1"><a href="#f1">1</a></sup> takes all of the changes in the
+PR, and bundles them into a single commit. GitHub gives you the opportunity to
+edit the commit message before you confirm, and normally you should do so,
+because the default will be useless (again: <code>* woops typo</code> is not a useful
+thing to keep in the historical record).</p>
+<p>The main problem with this approach comes when you have a series of pull
+requests which build on top of one another: as soon as you squash-merge the
+first PR, you'll end up with a stack of conflicts to resolve in all of the
+others. In general, it's best to avoid this situation in the first place by
+trying not to have multiple related PRs in flight at the same time. Still,
+sometimes that's not possible and doing a regular merge is the lesser evil.</p>
+<p>Another occasion in which a regular merge makes more sense is a PR where you've
+deliberately created a series of commits each of which makes sense in its own
+right. For example: <a href="https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/6837">a PR which gradually propagates a refactoring operation
+through the codebase</a>, or <a href="https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/5987">a
+PR which is the culmination of several other
+PRs</a>. In this case the ability
+to figure out when a particular change/bug was introduced could be very useful.</p>
+<p>Ultimately: <strong>this is not a hard-and-fast-rule</strong>. If in doubt, ask yourself “do
+each of the commits I am about to merge make sense in their own right”, but
+remember that we're just doing our best to balance “keeping the commit history
+clean” with other factors.</p>
+<h2 id="git-branching-model"><a class="header" href="#git-branching-model">Git branching model</a></h2>
+<p>A <a href="https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/">lot</a>
+<a href="http://scottchacon.com/2011/08/31/github-flow.html">of</a>
+<a href="https://www.endoflineblog.com/gitflow-considered-harmful">words</a> have been
+written in the past about git branching models (no really, <a href="https://martinfowler.com/articles/branching-patterns.html">a
+lot</a>). I tend to
+think the whole thing is overblown. Fundamentally, it's not that
+complicated. Here's how we do it.</p>
+<p>Let's start with a picture:</p>
+<p><img src="img/git/branches.jpg" alt="branching model" /></p>
+<p>It looks complicated, but it's really not. There's one basic rule: <em>anyone</em> is
+free to merge from <em>any</em> more-stable branch to <em>any</em> less-stable branch at
+<em>any</em> time<sup id="a2"><a href="#f2">2</a></sup>. (The principle behind this is that if a
+change is good enough for the more-stable branch, then it's also good enough go
+put in a less-stable branch.)</p>
+<p>Meanwhile, merging (or squashing, as per the above) from a less-stable to a
+more-stable branch is a deliberate action in which you want to publish a change
+or a set of changes to (some subset of) the world: for example, this happens
+when a PR is landed, or as part of our release process.</p>
+<p>So, what counts as a more- or less-stable branch? A little reflection will show
+that our active branches are ordered thus, from more-stable to less-stable:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><code>master</code> (tracks our last release).</li>
+<li><code>release-vX.Y</code> (the branch where we prepare the next release)<sup
+   id="a3"><a href="#f3">3</a></sup>.</li>
+<li>PR branches which are targeting the release.</li>
+<li><code>develop</code> (our &quot;mainline&quot; branch containing our bleeding-edge).</li>
+<li>regular PR branches.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The corollary is: if you have a bugfix that needs to land in both
+<code>release-vX.Y</code> <em>and</em> <code>develop</code>, then you should base your PR on
+<code>release-vX.Y</code>, get it merged there, and then merge from <code>release-vX.Y</code> to
+<code>develop</code>. (If a fix lands in <code>develop</code> and we later need it in a
+release-branch, we can of course cherry-pick it, but landing it in the release
+branch first helps reduce the chance of annoying conflicts.)</p>
+<hr />
+<p><b id="f1">[1]</b>: “Squash and merge” is GitHub's term for this
+operation. Given that there is no merge involved, I'm not convinced it's the
+most intuitive name. <a href="#a1">^</a></p>
+<p><b id="f2">[2]</b>: Well, anyone with commit access.<a href="#a2">^</a></p>
+<p><b id="f3">[3]</b>: Very, very occasionally (I think this has happened once in
+the history of Synapse), we've had two releases in flight at once. Obviously,
+<code>release-v1.2</code> is more-stable than <code>release-v1.3</code>. <a href="#a3">^</a></p>
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+                        <h1 id="room-dag-concepts"><a class="header" href="#room-dag-concepts">Room DAG concepts</a></h1>
+<h2 id="edges"><a class="header" href="#edges">Edges</a></h2>
+<p>The word &quot;edge&quot; comes from graph theory lingo. An edge is just a connection
+between two events. In Synapse, we connect events by specifying their
+<code>prev_events</code>. A subsequent event points back at a previous event.</p>
+<pre><code>A (oldest) &lt;---- B &lt;---- C (most recent)
+</code></pre>
+<h2 id="depth-and-stream-ordering"><a class="header" href="#depth-and-stream-ordering">Depth and stream ordering</a></h2>
+<p>Events are normally sorted by <code>(topological_ordering, stream_ordering)</code> where
+<code>topological_ordering</code> is just <code>depth</code>. In other words, we first sort by <code>depth</code>
+and then tie-break based on <code>stream_ordering</code>. <code>depth</code> is incremented as new
+messages are added to the DAG. Normally, <code>stream_ordering</code> is an auto
+incrementing integer, but backfilled events start with <code>stream_ordering=-1</code> and decrement.</p>
+<hr />
+<ul>
+<li><code>/sync</code> returns things in the order they arrive at the server (<code>stream_ordering</code>).</li>
+<li><code>/messages</code> (and <code>/backfill</code> in the federation API) return them in the order determined by the event graph <code>(topological_ordering, stream_ordering)</code>.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The general idea is that, if you're following a room in real-time (i.e.
+<code>/sync</code>), you probably want to see the messages as they arrive at your server,
+rather than skipping any that arrived late; whereas if you're looking at a
+historical section of timeline (i.e. <code>/messages</code>), you want to see the best
+representation of the state of the room as others were seeing it at the time.</p>
+<h2 id="forward-extremity"><a class="header" href="#forward-extremity">Forward extremity</a></h2>
+<p>Most-recent-in-time events in the DAG which are not referenced by any other events' <code>prev_events</code> yet.</p>
+<p>The forward extremities of a room are used as the <code>prev_events</code> when the next event is sent.</p>
+<h2 id="backwards-extremity"><a class="header" href="#backwards-extremity">Backwards extremity</a></h2>
+<p>The current marker of where we have backfilled up to and will generally be the
+oldest-in-time events we know of in the DAG.</p>
+<p>This is an event where we haven't fetched all of the <code>prev_events</code> for.</p>
+<p>Once we have fetched all of its <code>prev_events</code>, it's unmarked as a backwards
+extremity (although we may have formed new backwards extremities from the prev
+events during the backfilling process).</p>
+<h2 id="outliers"><a class="header" href="#outliers">Outliers</a></h2>
+<p>We mark an event as an <code>outlier</code> when we haven't figured out the state for the
+room at that point in the DAG yet.</p>
+<p>We won't <em>necessarily</em> have the <code>prev_events</code> of an <code>outlier</code> in the database,
+but it's entirely possible that we <em>might</em>. The status of whether we have all of
+the <code>prev_events</code> is marked as a <a href="#backwards-extremity">backwards extremity</a>.</p>
+<p>For example, when we fetch the event auth chain or state for a given event, we
+mark all of those claimed auth events as outliers because we haven't done the
+state calculation ourself.</p>
+<h2 id="state-groups"><a class="header" href="#state-groups">State groups</a></h2>
+<p>For every non-outlier event we need to know the state at that event. Instead of
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+mapping), which is <em>very</em> space inefficient when state doesn't change, we
+instead assign each different set of state a &quot;state group&quot; and then have
+mappings of <code>event_id -&gt; state_group</code> and <code>state_group -&gt; state</code>.</p>
+<h3 id="stage-group-edges"><a class="header" href="#stage-group-edges">Stage group edges</a></h3>
+<p>TODO: <code>state_group_edges</code> is a further optimization...
+notes from @Azrenbeth, https://pastebin.com/seUGVGeT</p>
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+resource for being able to tinker with the SAML options within Synapse without needing to
+deploy and configure a complicated software stack.</p>
+<p>To make Synapse (and therefore Riot) use it:</p>
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+<li>Use the samling.html URL above or deploy your own and visit the IdP Metadata tab.</li>
+<li>Copy the XML to your clipboard.</li>
+<li>On your Synapse server, create a new file <code>samling.xml</code> next to your <code>homeserver.yaml</code> with
+the XML from step 2 as the contents.</li>
+<li>Edit your <code>homeserver.yaml</code> to include:
+<pre><code class="language-yaml">saml2_config:
+  sp_config:
+    allow_unknown_attributes: true  # Works around a bug with AVA Hashes: https://github.com/IdentityPython/pysaml2/issues/388
+    metadata:
+      local: [&quot;samling.xml&quot;]   
+</code></pre>
+</li>
+<li>Ensure that your <code>homeserver.yaml</code> has a setting for <code>public_baseurl</code>:
+<pre><code class="language-yaml">public_baseurl: http://localhost:8080/
+</code></pre>
+</li>
+<li>Run <code>apt-get install xmlsec1</code> and <code>pip install --upgrade --force 'pysaml2&gt;=4.5.0'</code> to ensure
+the dependencies are installed and ready to go.</li>
+<li>Restart Synapse.</li>
+</ol>
+<p>Then in Riot:</p>
+<ol>
+<li>Visit the login page with a Riot pointing at your homeserver.</li>
+<li>Click the Single Sign-On button.</li>
+<li>On the samling page, enter a Name Identifier and add a SAML Attribute for <code>uid=your_localpart</code>.
+The response must also be signed.</li>
+<li>Click &quot;Next&quot;.</li>
+<li>Click &quot;Post Response&quot; (change nothing).</li>
+<li>You should be logged in.</li>
+</ol>
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