Wikimedia

[Tracker] Get your local development instance running and send us a screenshot

Get your local development instance of Wikimedia Tracker running. After you're done, please send us a screenshot showing your local Tracker instance running.

Steps

(all paths are from repository's root)

  1. Clone the repository (preferably from Gerrit)
  2. Setup the repository for use with git review. You can use this tutorial
  3. Create /deploy folder
  4. Create Python3 virtual environment (venv) by running virtualenv -p python3 deploy/pyenv
  5. Activate the venv by running source deploy/pyenv/bin/activate
  6. Install required packages by running pip install -r support/requirements.txt
  7. Run python support/makesettings.py to get example settings.py
  8. Edit settings.py's DATABASES sections to contain valid DB settings
  9. Run python trackersite/manage.py migrate to apply schema migrations
  10. Run python trackersite/manage.py runserver to start the development server. It should listen on localhost:8000

Task tags

  • python
  • django

Students who completed this task

Bjornskjald, dlxx, kunalsoni, tobimori

Task type

  • assessment Outreach / Research

Level

Beginner
close

2019