Github Contribution Guide has Deprecated Instructions

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Hello,

I’m unsure that this counts as a bug report but it seems like the best place to put it.

I have been trying to set up the iNaturalist repository on my local machine and have run into a few issues. I have followed the contributing guide but docker-compose seems to be deprecated now, and running make services-api continually throws an error. Should I try and work around the deprecated sections by manually updating them to the best of my ability, or is there a better solution or updated setup guide?

Thanks very much

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(added “Github” to the title)

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I’m not really sure if docker compose is deprecated (these docs don’t say it is, at least), but make services-api should not error out. What error are you seeing?

I don’t think we have a better setup guide.

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I think the issue is about “docker-compose” vs “docker compose”

compose v2 is now part of docker, and v1 is deprecated since July 2023.

I updated the Makefile using “docker compose” instead: https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/blob/main/Makefile