This is the complete system with everything you need to set up Inboxen.

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GPG keys used by Inboxen developers to sign releases:

Matt Molyneaux <moggers87@moggers87.co.uk>
    19F5 A8DC C917 FD00 E859   02F4 878B 5A2A 1D47 C084

You'll need the following tools:

• Git
• Python (we strongly recommend you use virtualenv too)
• PostgreSQL
• NodeJS
• jshint
• EditorConfig (optional)

This project comes with a .editorconfig file - we recommend installing it to avoid things like mixing tabs/spaces or accidentally saving files with DOS-style newlines.

Set yourself up with a virtual environment and run the following:

git clone https://github.com/Inboxen/Inboxen.git
cd Inboxen
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
mkdir node_modules
npm install
python manage.py collectstatic

When you've made your changes, remember to run tox -e js-lint,py-lint to check your code style and run unit tests. To run the tests do the following:

python manage.py test

You'll need a settings.ini file, for example:

[general]
secret_key = some_random_string
debug=true
[tasks]
always_eager=true

If you want to start a local HTTP server to test out your changes, run the following:

python manage.py runserver

You can connect to it on http://localhost:8000/.

With debug=true, you'll have the Django Debug Toolbar enabled and you can find the Inboxen styleguide at http://localhost:8000/styleguide

Inboxen uses pip-tools to help manage its dependencies. The direct requirements of Inboxen are kept in requirements.in and then we use the following command to pin the entire dependency graph:

pip-compile --upgrade --output-file requirements.txt requirements.in

The resulting requirements.txt can be installed to a clean virtualenv with pip to get the exact package versions that Inboxen uses in production. You can also use the pip-sync (which comes with pip-tools) to update an existing virtualenv as well as remove packages that are no longer required.

The same principal applies to requirements-dev.txt/requirements-dev.txt and any files found in extras/requirements.

If for any reason you wish to bypass pinning dependencies, requirements.in and requirements-dev.in are in the format expected by pip.

All development happens in branches off of master. Each branch should have an associated issue - if there isn't one for what you're working on then create a new issue first!

Branch names should be of the format <issue>-<description> where:

• <issue> is the issue you are working on
• <description> is a brief description of what's happening on that branch

For example, 129-pin-inboxes was the branch used for implementing the pin inbox feature

Finished branches are then merged into master. If there is someone available to review your branch, your branch should be reviewed and merged by them. Remember to add a note to CHANGELOG.md when merging!

Hotfixes should be branched from the latest deploy tag, and then be tagged themselves as a normal deployment before being merged back into master.

You should follow the pattern of "summary, gap, details, gap, issue references"

For example:

Blah blah thing

Fixes this thing, changes how we should do something else

fix #345
touch #234

If you are committing on `master , then make sure to end your commit message with "IN MASTER" so we know who to blame when stuff breaks.

You'll need the following tools:

• Git
• Python (we strongly recommend you use virtualenv too)
• PostgreSQL
• NodeJS

Set yourself up with a virtual environment and run the following:

git clone https://github.com/Inboxen/Inboxen.git
cd Inboxen
pip install -r requirements.txt
mkdir node_modules
npm install

After this has completed, see the next section on minimum configuration. Also, settings.py is well commented and explains what various configuration options do.

We tag our deployments (you should too) - we use signed annotated tags (git tag -as deploy-YYYYMMDD). The tag should contain the changelog for development since the last deploy tag. This is particularly useful for rollbacks and keeps a record of deployments that's separate from git history.

Please remember to sign tags with your GPG key.

At the very least, this file should contain the following:

[general]
secret_key = some_random_string

Where some_random_string is a long (at least a length of 50) string, containing random characters.

The WSGI script can be found at inboxen/wsgi.py

Static files are collected into ./static_content/. You should configure your web server to point the URL /static/ to this folder.

Remember to run python manage.py collectstatic!