[Mailman-Developers] Setting up a VM.

[Chris Cargile]

On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Terri Oda <terri at zone12.com> wrote:

>
> go ahead and get a VM set up;
>
> Chris, who was working on such a thing before, seems to have gotten stuck
> somewhere.... You probably also want to talk to other incoming students
> who've already set up their dev environment since they'll have any issues
> they encountered fresh in their minds!
>

I seem to get stuck completing the buildout process..I am not able to get
mailman core configured/running correctly (so far),as
after running /bin/test -vv, the tests don't succeed, showing that I get
errors from tests: SMTPLayer, Layer: mailman.testing.layers.RESTLayer..

The cause in both cases seems to stem from failing at the SMTPLayer, where
it shows: [Error98] Address already in use.

"mailman conf" shows that smtp port setting is:25.  I tried "netstat -plntu
| grep :25" to see if there were any processes using that port and there
are not any.  I think I found info. sometime back regarding the error
message but have not resolved it, so I can get postorius to run in the
browser but am stuck at mailman core part.


> I'm cc'ing Chris so he can share any advice
>
> .

RE: sharing a development image, Xu Wang posted on that today, which I look
forward to exploring... thanks (and for bearing with me during my env't set
up)
I did research into sharing a development machine-image using Amazon EC2,S3
API/buckets, but left that alone for now due to possible cost factors as
well as potentially better alternatives - though, I'd be glad to work
together with anyone interested in an EC2 dev-env't setup.  Send me an
email or IRC :)