IETF Mail List Archives

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• Sandbox Server

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Development

VSCode

This project supports VSCode Dev Containers. Open the project in VSCode and choose restart in container. To run tests: Terminal -> Run Task -> Run All Tests

Others

Run (cd docker && ./run-dev) from the command line. You will be prompted with the following message.

You can execute arbitrary commands now, e.g.,

    backend/manage.py check && backend/manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

to start a development instance of the Mail Archive.

    cd backend/mlarchive && pytest tests

to run all the tests.

Run cd backend/mlarchive && pytest tests to run all tests.

Sandbox Server

Follow these instructions to deploy a containerized version of the system on a staging server.

• Download release tarbal from GitHub and extract

mkdir 2.20.12
cd 2.20.12
wget https://github.com/ietf-tools/mailarchive/releases/download/2.20.12/release.tar.gz
tar xvzf release.tar.gz

• Run compose

docker compose -f compose-sandbox.yml up -d

Load sample data

To load some sample data (messages for a few small lists), from within the app container:

cd backend/mlarchive/bin
./load_sample_data.sh