For the first time ever, we will be hosting a devstack installfest at the beginning of the Open edX hands-on tutorial day, May 23. However, rather than asking everyone to install their devstack on-site, using a million USB keys or saturating the local wifi, we think the best approach is to invite everyone to follow the documentation in advance, and then we would spend the time allotted in Madrid for troubleshooting, discussion, feedback, documentation fixes, testing, etc.
For first-time Open edX developers, we highly recommend installing the Ficus version of our Vagrant-based devstack. This is the best documented and supported environment for developing for Open edX.
For those who are a bit more seasoned and already have a working Vagrant environment, or have extensive experience setting it up, we think this would be a good chance to get feedback on the Docker-based developer environment we have been working on. To get started, follow the instructions in the README at github.com/edx/devstack. Note that detailed documentation for this is very light and we are actively seeking feedback and contributions on this effort, particularly if there are workflows or use cases that are under-documented or that no longer work.
We’ve set up the #openedx2017-devstack Slack channel (sign up for Slack at bit.ly/openedx-slack) for discussion of this effort, so feel free to ask questions there in advance, and we’ll use it during the installfest as well.
And hey, if everyone has a working devstack when they arrive on Tuesday morning, we’ll just drink coffee and talk about the cool ideas we have for the project day Friday!