Documentation for Project Birdbox

Birdbox is a kit for building on-brand, easily editable microsites quickly.

This is a documentation-only repo. The codebase for the kit is at https://github.com/mozmeao/birdbox/

Birdbox was developed by the Marketing Engineering team to save us time and to put more control over content in the hands of the relevant project’s teams.

It is a full-stack solution, bringing together three key aspects:

• Wagtail: a class-leading content management system: Wagtail

• Protocol, Mozila’s design system for the web, to help ensure the sites look and behave like Mozilla sites

• Streamlined infrastructure setup.

How to update these docs

This documentation uses MkDocs to generate documentation pages and upload them to Github Pages for public viewing at https://mozmeao.github.io/birdbox-documentation/

To set up your machine for working on these docs:

• Install the just taskrunner (Docs here; spoiler: brew install just)
• Check out the repo
• cd path/to/birdbox-documentation
• Ideally, create then activate a virtual environment (pyenv + pyenv-virtualenv is recommended, but not required - see Bedrock docs for installation details). Python 3.11+ is required, which you can install with `pyenv install 3.11.3``
• just preflight to install local dependencies and any other setup tasks

To make edits once you have everything installed:

• just serve to run the MKDocs local server
• Make your edits on a new branch, commit and raise a PR

And to publish changes:

• Push/merge to main and automation will deploy the latest version to https://mozmeao.github.io/birdbox-documentation/

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LICENSE: Mozilla Public License Version 2.0