X-Git-Url: http://www.git.stargrave.org/?p=public-inbox.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=HACKING;h=3435775c632b5159617452816bc0ccd757465907;hp=1cda588e9c7632e5268ec2f505cf23c3ff1a8387;hb=4db4bfa2c9178b315d2ac09cff794a4476ba1f6e;hpb=19a602120d1e593c8045672e842f38b29910db03

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@@ -1,8 +1,14 @@
 hacking public-inbox
 --------------------
 
-Send all patches via to our self-hosting inbox at meta@public-inbox.org
-It is archived at <http://public-inbox.org/meta/>.
+Send all patches and "git request-pull"-formatted emails to our
+self-hosting inbox at meta@public-inbox.org
+It is archived at: https://public-inbox.org/meta/
+and http://hjrcffqmbrq6wope.onion/meta/ (using Tor)
+
+Contributions are email-driven, just like contributing to git
+itself or the Linux kernel; however anonymous and pseudonymous
+contributions will always be welcome.
 
 Please consider our goals in mind:
 
@@ -11,8 +17,38 @@ Please consider our goals in mind:
 These goals apply to everyone: users viewing over the web or NNTP,
 sysadmins running public-inbox, and other hackers working public-inbox.
 
-We will reject any feature which advocates or contributes to a particular
-instance of a public-inbox becoming a single point of failure.
+We will reject any feature which advocates or contributes to any
+particular instance of a public-inbox becoming a single point of failure.
+Things we've considered but rejected include:
+
+* exposing article serial numbers outside of NNTP
+* allowing readers to inject metadata (e.g. votes)
+
+We care about being accessible to folks with vision problems and/or
+lack the computing resources to view so-called "modern" websites.
+This includes folks on slow connections and ancient browsers which
+may be too difficult to upgrade due to resource demands.
+
+Only depend on Free Software packages which exist in the "main"
+section of Debian 7.0 and later.  (We will bump version requirements
+as time passes, but this is current as of January 2016).
+In general, we favor mature and well-tested old things rather than
+the shiny new.
+
+Avoid relying on compiled modules too much.  Even if it is Free,
+compiled code makes packages more expensive to audit, build,
+distribute and verify.  public-inbox itself will only be implemented
+in scripting languages (currently Perl 5).
+
+Performance should be reasonably good for server administrators, too,
+and we will sacrifice features to achieve predictable performance.
+Encouraging folks to self-host will be easier with lower hardware
+requirements.
+
+See design_www.txt and design_notes.txt in the Documentation/
+directory for design decisions made during development.
 
-See design_www.txt and design_notes.txt in the Documentation/ directory
-for design decisions made during development.
+For now, one may optionally subscribe to the mailing list by
+sending an email to: meta+subscribe@public-inbox.org
+(and confirming).  However, reading over the mailing list is
+the least reliable method of reading a public-inbox.