The Contributor's Quick Start isn't quick enough and needs some TLC

[RNHTTR]

What do you see as an issue?

The Contributor's Quick Start is super long and arguably confusing

There are also a handful of issues with the guide now. Here's an example, :

Solving the problem

The guide references several different ways to run an Airflow dev environment:

• Containers with different flavors
  • Docker
  • Colima
  • Docker compose
• Hatch, pyenv, pyenv-virtualenv, or virtualenvwrapper
• Postgres (not necessary for a lot of contributions, especially for someone new to contributing here)
• Breeze

I think we should align on the truly simplest way for users to make their first contribution and move everything else to separate guides.

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[amoghrajesh]

Good catch, I think breeze would be the most ideal dev env setup and also the easiest I'd say

[RNHTTR]

The downside to breeze is it requires Docker which requires quite a bit of RAM that might make contributing prohibitive to some users. Alternatively there could be a separate quickstart for using a virtual env instead of breeze?

[amoghrajesh]

That's smart. We basically can have 2 quickstarts for two of the most common (and used) developer setups:

1. Virtual Env Quickstart
2. Breeze Quickstart

[potiuk]

Yes. I think quick start tried to combine both Breeze and venv setup as quick start, but splitting it to ven e and breeze quick start is a good idea. Both serve different purpose - there is even a table in contributing docs when you should use local venv and when Breeze

[potiuk]

We discussed very similar thing about generic Python experience and it would be great to have a page in our contribute docs 'if you want to do this - choose local',of you want to do that - setup Breeze.