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==================================
 Set up Postorius in five minutes
==================================

This is a quick guide for setting up a development environment to work on
Mailman 3's web UI, called Postorius.  If all goes as planned, you should be
done within 5 minutes.  This has been tested on Ubuntu 11.04.

In order to download the components necessary you need to have the `Git`_
version control system installed on your system.  Mailman requires Python 3.4
or newer, while mailman.client needs at least Python version 2.6.

It's probably a good idea to set up a virtual Python environment using
`virtualenv`_.  `Here is a brief HOWTO`_.  You would need two separate virtual
environment one using Python version 2.6 or 2.7 (for Postorius and
mailman.client) and other using Python 3 (for Mailman core).

.. _`virtualenv`: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv
.. _`Here is a brief HOWTO`: ./ArchiveUIin5.html#get-it-running-under-virtualenv
.. _`Git`: http://git-scm.com


Mailman Core
============

First download the latest revision of Mailman 3 from Gitlab.
::

  $(py3) git clone git@gitlab.com:mailman/mailman.git

Install the Core::

  $(py3) cd mailman
  $(py3) python setup.py develop

If you get no errors you can now start Mailman::

  $(py3) mailman start
  $(py3) 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)
===========================================================

Now you should switch to the virtual environment running Python version 2.6 or
2.7.  Download the client from Gitlab::

  $(py2) git clone git@gitlab.com:mailman/mailmanclient.git

Install in development mode to be able to change the code without working
directly on the PYTHONPATH.
::

  $(py2) cd mailmanclient
  $(py2) python setup.py develop
  $(py2) cd ..


Postorius
=========

::

  $(py2) git clone git@gitlab.com:mailman/postorius.git
  $(py2) cd postorius
  $(py2) python setup.py develop


Start the development server
============================

Postorius is a Django app which can be used with any Django project.  We have
a project already developed which you can set up like this::

  $(py2) cd example_project
  $(py2) python manage.py migrate
  $(py2) python manage.py runserver

The last command will start the dev server on http://localhost:8000.