1463988 - phabricator-extensions development environment does not work locally, and is not documented

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Conduit :: Phabricator, defect)

Description

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https://github.com/mozilla-services/phabricator-extensions/ has no information in the readme on how to build and configure its development environment, and the existing information assumes prior knowledge (eg. `invoke` is referenced without any details on how to install it).

`docker build .` and `invoke build` fail with the following error:

> Step 13/18 : COPY phabext.json /app
> COPY failed: stat /var/lib/docker/tmp/docker-builder542064483/phabext.json: no such file or directory


looking at the circleci config it looks like phabext.json is created by circleci, never locally.  the readme should document how to create this, or better yet it should be created automatically during the `invoke build` task if it doesn't already exist.

Comment 1

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zalun told me over irc that he uses the demo env for dev work on this extension.
assuming that's the supported env for phabext development, the readme at least needs to be updated to document that.

Comment 2

[Phabricator Automation]

Attachment: Bug 1463988 - phabricator-extensions development environment does not work locally, and is not documented

- Updated README.md and added firefox-proxy script

Comment 3

[Phabricator Automation]

Comment on attachment 8980810 [details]
Bug 1463988 - phabricator-extensions development environment does not work locally, and is not documented

Piotr Zalewa [:zalun] has approved the revision.

https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D1420