Current Situation

Currently our README is full of specific docker commands that you have to run to do certain things like attach to the airflow container, read airflow logs, and start the services themselves.

Suggested Improvement

We could improve this by using the just utility (available cross-platform) which is very similar to make but purpose made for being a command runner (whereas make is really a build system that gets abused as a command runner).

Benefit

A few benefits:

0. Easier for beginners to Openverse to get started (install just then run just start for example)
1. Easier for developers to run repetative tasks like seeing logs or attaching to the airflow container (just attachairflow, just logs, etc)
2. Our README's become more maintainable as all the commands will just be references to the just recipes.

Additional context

One advantage make has over just (and this is huge) is that make is preinstalled on many machines, whereas just is not preinstalled anywhere. just has better ergonomics, however, for command running than make. For example, in make when you want to create a command you have to also add the PHONY tag to avoid accidentally interacting with the filesystem. You also cannot pass extra arguments to make commands, whereas just allows you to do so explicity.

Implementation

• 🙋 I would be interested in implementing this feature.