Before this commit, provisioning was done by executing provision.py,
which printed the log directly to stdout, making debugging harder.
This commit creates a wrapper bash script 'provision' in tools, which
calls 'zulip/scripts/tools/provision_vm.py' (the new location of
provision.py) and prints all the output to
'zulip/var/log/zulip/zulip_provision.log' via 'tee'.
Travis tests and docs have been modified accordingly.
Based on feedback from first-time contributors, this commit simplifies
the number of paths available for finding the dev setup directions you
need. Setup instructions are now organized into Recommended (Vagrant)
and Advanced (non-Vagrant).
In order to get the ToC to display correctly, I've combined all the
advanced, non-Vagrant methods into one page. I've left the old pages
intact, with a note that the content has been moved and link to the new
page. This is in case folks have linked directly to those pages.
The advanced setup directions still need to be cleaned up, but this is a
start.
Two reasons not to use such links:
- when making doc changes, if you follow links in your local build, they can
cause you to silently end up no longer reading your local changes
- they can cause you to randomly switch between http:// and https://
This adds support for using VMWare Fusion as the Vagrant provider,
which has better performance than Virtualbox at the price of being
nonfree (in all senses of the term).
We haven't done solid benchmarking as to how much faster it is than
the Virtualbox provider.
Updates Zulip dev setup for first-time contributors as follows:
- Recommends and links to Vagrant version 1.8.4 (from 1.8.1)
- Consolidates Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 16.04 instructions since they are
now identical.
- Updates memory requirement to 2GB to address out of memory related
errors (see issue #1333).
Fixes#1288.
Sphinx/RTD creates different anchor tags for subheadings than
Markdown does, and treats image embedding differently.
This commit updates hyperlinks to affected anchors,
and fixes an image embed for move to RTD.
We aim to consolidate developer documentation on Read The Docs. As a
start, this commit turns the first part of README.dev.md into a topic
page within /docs/ , and links to it from the doc index.
See #669.
Robert Hönig
Rohan Tibrewal
Tim Abbott
Christie Koehler
Zev Benjamin
Anders Kaseorg
Alex Dehnert
sinwar
K.Kanakhin
Vikas Parashar
Sumana Harihareswara
Taranjeet Singh
Tim Abbott