This repository contains source code for rabbitmq.com content.

All changes that need to be deployed right away need to be committed to the live branch.

Changes which should be deployed when the next patch release (a.k.a. stable) of RabbitMQ ships should be committed to the stable branch.

Changes which should be deployed when the next 3.6.x patch release of RabbitMQ ships should be committed to the 3.6.x branch.

Changes which should be deployed when the next minor release (a.k.a. master) of RabbitMQ ships should be committed to the master branch.

There are a few noteworthy and long-lived named branches in this repository:

The site requires Python 3.6 or later, lxml and Markdown libraries for development. It also assumes Apache 2.x is used for deployment. pyenv can be used to install the appropriate Python version without affecting the system version(s).

When using OS native package managers be aware that Python packages can be out-of-date.

On a recent MacOS version with Homebrew it should be enough to run

make preview

to install the dependencies and run a local copy on localhost:8191

It is also possible to install the dependencies manually:

brew install python
pip install lxml markdown

Using the system Python, dependencies must be installed differently:

sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install lxml markdown

To run a local copy manually on localhost:8191, use:

./driver.py [www|next|previous]

On Debian and Ubuntu dependencies can be installed via apt:

sudo apt-get install python3-lxml python3-markdown python3-pygments

To run a local copy manually on localhost:8191, use:

./driver.py [www|next|previous]

Note that when running a local copy the site will not feature:

• Any release artefacts (such as Web versions of the man pages)
• The blog

The website also has the concept of being deployed in modes. The three modes are:

You determine which mode you are using with an argument to the driver or deploy scripts. Modes are implemented with the <x:modal/> tag and the $page-mode variable in XSLT.

diagrams.py is a script generates PNGs from graph descriptions embedded in files. Generally you don't need to run this, since the generated PNGs are committed. To work on the diagrams please install Graphviz:

sudo apt-get install graphviz

To generate the site/news.atom feed, run the following command:

xsltproc --novalid site/feed-atom.xsl site/news.xml > site/news.atom

See NOTICE and LICENSE.