Makina corpus users, you should use: docs/corpusdjango/makinastates_standalone.rst and read: docs/corpusdjango/makinastates_prod.rst For a really quick'n dirty procedure, please refer to: docs/corpusdjango/light_dev.rst Have also a look to the contribute notes: docs/corpusdjango/contributing.rst To start a new project, refer to: docs/corpusdjango/create_project.rst