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This is a quick guide to setup a development environment to work on Mailman 3's web ui. If all goes as planned, you should be done within ~5 minutes. This has been tested on Ubuntu 11.04.
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This is a quick guide to setup a development environment to work on Postorius, Mailman 3's web ui. If all goes as planned, you should be done within ~5 minutes. This has been tested on Ubuntu 11.04 and OS X 10.8.1.  Please note that the Python provided by apple for OSX ''will not work''; you need to install your own version of python (e.g. using fink or macports). The [[../Mac Mailman development setup guide|Mac Mailman development setup guide]] has instructions using homebrew if you need additional instructions.
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In order to download the components necessary you need to have the Bazaar VCS installed on your system. Mailman and mailman.client need at least Python version 2.6. == Set up your environment ==
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== GNU Mailman 3 == Install the essentials
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First download the latest revision of Mailman 3 from launchpad. {{{$ sudo apt-get install bzr python-setuptools python-dev build-essential postfix}}}

Get the sources
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$ bzr branch lp:mailman
}}}
(postorius)$ bzr branch lp:mailman
(postorius)$ bzr branch lp:mailman.client
(postorius)$ bzr branch lp:postorius
(postorius)$ bzr branch lp:~mailman-coders/postorius/postorius_standalone}}}
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Install and test: If you get permission errors on this step, your ssh key is probably not in sync with what is on launchpad.net.

== Install Django ==
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$ cd mailman 
$ python bootstrap.py
$ bin/buildout
$ bin/test
(postorius)$ pip install django==1.4
(postorius)$ pip install django-social-auth}}}


== Set up sources ==

=== GNU Mailman 3 ===

{{{
(postorius)$ cd mailman 
(postorius)$ python setup.py install
(postorius)$ bin/buildout
(postorius)$ bin/test
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$ bin/mailman start
$ cd ..
(postorius)$ bin/mailman start
(postorius)$ cd ..
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== mailman.client (the Python bindings for Mailman's ReST API) ==

Download from launchpad:
=== mailman.client (the Python bindings for Mailman's ReST API) ===
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$ bzr branch lp:mailman.client
}}}
(postorius)$ cd mailman.client
(postorius)$ python setup.py develop
(postorius)$ cd ..}}}
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Install in development mode to be able to change the code without working directly on the PYTHONPATH. === Postorius ===
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$ cd mailman.client
$ sudo python setup.py develop
$ cd ..
}}}

== Django >= 1.3 ==

The web ui is a pluggable Django application. Therefore you need to have Django (at least version 1.3) installed. Also install the django-social-auth application (added because of open Id work going on).

{{{
$ wget http://www.djangoproject.com/download/1.3.1/tarball/ -O Django-1.3.1.tar.gz
$ tar xzf Django-1.3.1.tar.gz
$ cd Django-1.3.1
$ sudo python setup.py install
$ cd ..
}}}

== mailmanweb ==

{{{
$ bzr branch lp:postorius
$ cd postorius
$ sudo python setup.py develop
}}}
(postorius)$ cd postorius
(postorius)$ python setup.py develop
(postorius)$ cd ..}}}
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$ cd dev_setup
$ python manage.py syncdb
$ python manage.py runserver
(postorius)$ cd postorius_standalone
(pos
torius)$ python manage.py syncdb
(postorius)$ python manage.py runserver
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The last command will start the dev server on [[http://localhost:8000|http://localhost:8000]] == Profit! ==
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== A note for MacOS X users (and possibly others running python 2.7) ==

On an OS X 10.7 (Lion) system, some of these steps needed to be modified to use python2.6 instead of python. (In particular, bzr is known to behave badly when used python2.7 on OS X 10.7 at the moment – hopefully this will be fixed and no longer an issue soon.)

You will need to install the latest version of XCode on MacOS 10.7, which is available for free from the app store. If you had a previous version of XCode installed when you upgraded to 10.7, it will no longer work and will not have automatically been upgraded, so be prepared to install again. Once you have it installed from the app store, you will still need to go run the installer from /Applications to complete the installation.
Now go to [[http://localhost:8000|http://localhost:8000]] to see the web UI for mailman!

This is a quick guide to setup a development environment to work on Postorius, Mailman 3's web ui. If all goes as planned, you should be done within ~5 minutes. This has been tested on Ubuntu 11.04 and OS X 10.8.1.  Please note that the Python provided by apple for OSX will not work; you need to install your own version of python (e.g. using fink or macports). The Mac Mailman development setup guide has instructions using homebrew if you need additional instructions.

Set up your environment

Install the essentials

$ sudo apt-get install bzr python-setuptools python-dev build-essential postfix

Get the sources

(postorius)$ bzr branch lp:mailman
(postorius)$ bzr branch lp:mailman.client
(postorius)$ bzr branch lp:postorius
(postorius)$ bzr branch lp:~mailman-coders/postorius/postorius_standalone

If you get permission errors on this step, your ssh key is probably not in sync with what is on launchpad.net.

Install Django

(postorius)$ pip install django==1.4
(postorius)$ pip install django-social-auth

Set up sources

GNU Mailman 3

(postorius)$ cd mailman 
(postorius)$ python setup.py install
(postorius)$ bin/buildout
(postorius)$ bin/test

If you get no errors you can now start Mailman:

(postorius)$ bin/mailman start
(postorius)$ cd ..

At this point Mailman will not send nor receive any real emails. But that's fine as long as you only want to work on the components related to the ReST client or the web ui.

mailman.client (the Python bindings for Mailman's ReST API)

(postorius)$ cd mailman.client
(postorius)$ python setup.py develop
(postorius)$ cd ..

Postorius

(postorius)$ cd postorius
(postorius)$ python setup.py develop
(postorius)$ cd ..

Start the development server

(postorius)$ cd postorius_standalone
(postorius)$ python manage.py syncdb
(postorius)$ python manage.py runserver

Profit!

Now go to http://localhost:8000 to see the web UI for mailman!



Comments

Máirín Duffy

It looks like bootstrap.py was removed in late July, marked as obsolete. I followed these instructions to get mailman and postorious running, except I replaced the bootstrap.py step with the following:

virtualenv --system-site-packages /path/to/your/installation
$ source /path/to/your/installation/bin/activate
$ python setup.py install

Now, if you get weird errors, remove the --system-site-packages from your virtualenv and try again. I guess depending on how your system is setup, it may or may not work with that option.

Máirín Duffy

I wrote up a guide on how to get hyperkitty up and running for development, and it includes the full modified steps I ran based on this document to get mailman 3 working. That guide is here:

https://fedorahosted.org/hyperkitty/wiki/DevelopmentSetupGuide

maxking

MailmanWiki: DEV/A 5 minute guide to get the Mailman web UI running (last edited 2018-04-20 06:16:05 by maxking)