autoland: add a README.md for project developers (
bug 1335535) r?imadueme,glob
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+# Mozilla Autoland
+
+A web service and user interface for automatically landing changes to Mozilla Mercurial repositories.
+
+
+## Building Autoland
+
+##### Prerequisites
+
+ * `docker` (on OS X you will want `docker-machine`, too)
+ * `docker-compose`
+
+
+##### Running the development server
+
+To build and start the development services' containers:
+
+```
+$ docker-compose up
+```
+
+On Linux, to test that Autoland web interface is being served:
+
+```
+$ curl localhost:8888
+<html>
+<head>
+ <title>Loading...</title>
+...
+```
+
+On OS X with `docker-machine` you will want to run:
+
+```
+$ curl $(docker-machine ip default):8888
+...
+```
+
+
+To make a request directly to the Autoland web service API, you will want to
+use the URL `http://[MY_DOCKER_HOST_IP]:8888/api/`. For example:
+
+```
+$ curl localhost:8888/api/v1/repos/conduit/series/bz://1234/a
+```
