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+.. _codebase-chapter:
+
+========================
+ Codebase Documentation
+========================
+
+This chapter covers the libraries that GNU MediaGoblin uses as well as
+various recipes for getting things done.
+
+
+Software Stack
+==============
+
+* Project infrastructure
+
+  * `Python <http://python.org/>`_: the language we're using to write
+    this
+
+  * `Nose <http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/>`_:
+    for unit tests
+
+  * `buildout <http://www.buildout.org/>`_: for getting dependencies,
+    building a runtime environment, ...
+
+* Data storage
+
+  * `MongoDB <http://www.mongodb.org/>`_: the document database backend
+    for storage
+
+* Web application
+
+  * `Paste Deploy <http://pythonpaste.org/deploy/>`_ and 
+    `Paste Script <http://pythonpaste.org/script/>`_: we'll use this for
+    configuring and launching the application
+
+  * `WebOb <http://pythonpaste.org/webob/>`_: nice abstraction layer
+    from HTTP requests, responses and WSGI bits
+
+  * `Routes <http://routes.groovie.org/>`_: for URL routing
+
+  * `Beaker <http://beaker.groovie.org/>`_: for handling sessions
+
+  * `Jinja2 <http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/>`_: the templating engine
+
+  * `MongoKit <http://namlook.github.com/mongokit/>`_: the lightweight
+    ORM for MongoDB we're using which will make it easier to define
+    structures and all that
+
+  * `WTForms <http://wtforms.simplecodes.com/>`_: for handling,
+    validation, and abstraction from HTML forms
+
+  * `Celery <http://celeryproject.org/>`_: for task queuing (resizing
+    images, encoding video, ...)
+
+  * `RabbitMQ <http://www.rabbitmq.com/>`_: for sending tasks to celery
+
+* Front end
+
+  * `JQuery <http://jquery.com/>`_: for groovy JavaScript things
+
+
+Recipes
+=======
+
+FIXME - write this