From c06016f27a307524473fd73ea3e6eee1820c73d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Felix Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 15:45:56 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add documentation for contributing to federation development --- docs/src/SUMMARY.md | 1 + .../contributing_federation_development.md | 37 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/src/contributing_federation_development.md diff --git a/docs/src/SUMMARY.md b/docs/src/SUMMARY.md index 10a6153e..70c423c7 100644 --- a/docs/src/SUMMARY.md +++ b/docs/src/SUMMARY.md @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ - [Contributing](contributing.md) - [Docker Development](contributing_docker_development.md) - [Local Development](contributing_local_development.md) + - [Federation Development](contributing_federation_development.md) - [Websocket/HTTP API](contributing_websocket_http_api.md) - [ActivityPub API Outline](contributing_apub_api_outline.md) - [Theming Guide](contributing_theming.md) diff --git a/docs/src/contributing_federation_development.md b/docs/src/contributing_federation_development.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..13a047d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/src/contributing_federation_development.md @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +# Federation Development + +## Setup + +If you don't have a local clone of the Lemmy repo yet, just run the following command: + +```bash +git clone https://yerbamate.dev/nutomic/lemmy.git -b federation +``` + +If you already have the Lemmy repo cloned, you need to add a new remote: +```bash +git remote add federation https://yerbamate.dev/nutomic/lemmy.git +git checkout federation +git pull federation federation +``` + +## Running + +You need to have the following packages installed, the Docker service needs to be running. + +- docker +- docker-compose +- cargo +- yarn + +Then run the following +```bash +cd dev/federation-test +./run-federation-test.bash +``` + +After the build is finished and the docker-compose setup is running, open [127.0.0.1:8540](http://127.0.0.1:8540) and +[127.0.0.1:8541](http://127.0.0.1:8541) in your browser to use the test instances. You can login as admin with +username `lemmy` and password `lemmy`, or create new accounts. + +Please get in touch if you want to contribute to this, so we can coordinate things and avoid duplicate work. \ No newline at end of file