rabbitmq/rabbitmq-public-umbrella

RabbitMQ Public Umbrella is a convenience tool for developers who work on RabbitMQ, the popular messaging system that lets different applications communicate with each other. Rather than juggling the many separate pieces that make up RabbitMQ, the core broker, various plugins, client libraries, this repository pulls everything into one place so you can work on multiple components together without managing them individually. The repository is essentially a workspace organizer. When you first set it up, a single command downloads all the related sub-projects into a folder called deps. Each sub-project sits in its own directory with a name that roughly describes what it does. For example, rabbit is the main server, amqp_client is an Erlang-based client library, and rabbit_common is shared code used across multiple pieces. From there, you can build and run the server from source, test individual plugins, or start the broker with specific plugins enabled, all using straightforward build commands. This tool is aimed at people contributing to RabbitMQ itself or building custom plugins for it. If you're a developer who needs to test how a new plugin interacts with the core broker, or you want to run the server's full test suite after making changes, this setup gives you a unified workflow. The README notes that it's no longer required if you're only working on a single plugin, that can be done independently now, but the umbrella remains useful for anyone touching multiple parts of the project at once. One practical detail worth noting: running the full server test suite can take up to two hours depending on your hardware, though a faster subset of essential tests is available. The README also suggests checking whether a snapshot build already exists before going through the effort of building a full distribution from source, since merged changes typically get published as snapshots within minutes to hours.