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* [X] Pull request is based on the develop branch
* [X] Pull request includes a [changelog
file](https://element-hq.github.io/synapse/latest/development/contributing_guide.html#changelog).
The entry should:
- Be a short description of your change which makes sense to users.
"Fixed a bug that prevented receiving messages from other servers."
instead of "Moved X method from `EventStore` to `EventWorkerStore`.".
- Use markdown where necessary, mostly for `code blocks`.
- End with either a period (.) or an exclamation mark (!).
- Start with a capital letter.
- Feel free to credit yourself, by adding a sentence "Contributed by
@github_username." or "Contributed by [Your Name]." to the end of the
entry.
* [X] [Code
style](https://element-hq.github.io/synapse/latest/code_style.html) is
correct
(run the
[linters](https://element-hq.github.io/synapse/latest/development/contributing_guide.html#run-the-linters))
I forgot the guide applies to Oracle Linux as well. In fact, I ran a
small homeserver on OEL a few months back.
I did minimal installations on Rocky and OEL on VirtualBox and noticed
Codeready/Powertools repos aren't required, so I removed those commands
from the guide. I switched `RHEL`-references to `EL`.
#17423 was merged before I remembered about OEL but a new PR shouldn't
hurt :)
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Co-authored-by: Quentin Gliech <quenting@element.io>
This was a note added in the PR to move to AGPL, which we failed to
remove before landing.
(The context for this was that we needed to decide if we were going to
change which debian repository we published too, but decided not to in
the end)
Added RHEL/Rocky install instructions (PyPI). Instructions cover
versions 8 and 9 which are the only supported ones - except for RHEL7
which is now on extended life cycle support phase.
Large part of the guide is for installing Python 3.11 or 3.12. RHEL8
ships with Python 3.6 and RHEL9 ships with 3.9. Newer Python versions
can be installed easily as they don't interfere with OS software that
still relies on the default Python version.
I was first planning to add prerequisites part to the prerequisites
section and then install instructions on the top of the page but that
section is for pre-built packages so it just didn't sound right. So I
just dumped everything to the PyPI section of the page. But suggestions
to change are welcome.
I also didn't combine these with Fedora section. I haven't tested those
packages on RHEL and Fedora ships with Python 3.12 out-of-box.
- Removed page summaries from CONTRIBUTING and installation pages as
this information was already in the table of contents on the right hand side
- Fixed some broken links in CONTRIBUTING
- Added margin-right tag for when table of contents is being shown
(otherwise the text in the page sometimes overlaps with it)
Our documentation has a history of using a document's name as a way to link to it, such as "See [workers.md]() for details". This makes sense when you're traversing a directory of files, but less sense when the files are abstracted away - as they are on the documentation website.
This PR changes the links to various documentation pages to something that fits better into the surrounding sentence, as you would when making any hyperlink on the web.
