• Fork the repository into your own personal github account.
• Clone your fork of the repository. git clone [email protected]:YourGitHubName/website.git
• Ensure you are running python 3.12. python -V or python3 -V should output Python 3.12.x
• Create a virtualenv to isolate the project dependencies. python3 -m venv pythonie-venv or virtualenv -p python3 pythonie-venv works for Ubuntu.
• Activate the virtualenv. source pythonie-venv/bin/activate
• Change into the website directory. cd website
• Install the dependencies. pip install -r requirements.txt
• Set up the database. python pythonie/manage.py migrate --settings=pythonie.settings.dev
• Run the server. python pythonie/manage.py runserver --settings=pythonie.settings.dev
• Check that it works by visiting http://127.0.0.1:8000/ in your browser. (You should see a 'welcome to Wagtail' site, as you will not see content until you've added it in your DB)
• Create a super user on your local DB. python pythonie/manage.py createsuperuser --settings=pythonie.settings.dev
• Log in to wagtail with your superuser by navigating to http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/.
• To get rid of redis errors, install and run redis server locally and set environment variable export REDISCLOUD_URL=127.0.0.1:6379
• To test flake8 compliance in the python source code flake8 pythonie/

• pythonie/manage.py test pythonie --settings=pythonie.settings.tests --verbosity=2

We use several tools to manage and streamline development:

• Task: Task runner for automating common development workflows. See Taskfile.yaml for available tasks.
• Toast: Containerized project automation. See toast.yml for configuration and available commands.
• asdf: Tool version manager to ensure consistent versions of Python and other tools. Refer to .tool-versions if present, and see the asdf documentation for setup.
• uv: Fast Python package manager, used for installing and managing dependencies. You can use uv pip install -r requirements.txt as a drop-in replacement for pip.

Make sure to install these tools to ensure a smooth development experience.