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.
Set up your environment
Install the essentials
$ sudo apt-get install bzr python-setuptools python-dev build-essential
$ ruby <(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go) $ brew install python $ echo "export PATH=/usr/local/share/python:$PATH" >> ~/.bash_profile $ source ~/.bash_profile $ brew install bazaar $ pip install distribute
Install virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper:
$ pip install virtualenv $ pip install virtualenvwrapper $ echo "export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs" >> ~/.bash_profile $ echo "source `which virtualenvwrapper.sh`" >> ~/.bash_profile $ export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs $ source virtualenvwrapper.sh
Create the postorious virtual environment:
$ mkvirtualenv postorius New python executable in postorius/bin/python Installing setuptools............done. Installing pip...............done. virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts creating {your_home_directory}/.virtualenvs/postorius/bin/predeactivate virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts creating {your_home_directory}/.virtualenvs/postorius/bin/postdeactivate virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts creating {your_home_directory}/.virtualenvs/postorius/bin/preactivate virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts creating {your_home_directory}/.virtualenvs/postorius/bin/postactivate virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts creating {your_home_directory}/.virtualenvs/postorius/bin/get_env_details (postorius) $
Now you should see (postorius) before your prompt.
For setup on Windows, and more advanced setup, see the Virtualenvwrapper documentation.
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 (postorius)$ pip install django-social-auth
Set up sources
GNU Mailman 3
(postorius)$ cd mailman (postorius)$ python bootstrap.py (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
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
The latest setup guide is available here: http://gnu-mailman.readthedocs.org/en/latest/src/mailman/docs/WebUIin5.html
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:
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.