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@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Discourse is a **Civilized Discourse Construction Kit**, an 100% open-source dis
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Key Discourse mission goals:
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- A **flattened, endlessly scrolling discussion**, avoiding the akwardness of traditionally threaded and paginated discussion, while allowing replies to be expanded in place for additional context.
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- A **flattened, endlessly scrolling discussion**, avoiding the awkardness of traditionally threaded and paginated discussion, while allowing replies to be expanded in place for additional context.
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- A **user trust system** that grants users additional rights to assist in moderating the forum as they participate in good faith over time. The goal is for the forum to be nearly self-moderating in the absence of any formal moderators, although excellent moderators accelerate the process greatly.
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@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ The Discourse team wishes to **foster an active community of contributors**, all
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This vision translates to the following functional commitments:
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1. Support only modern browsers on the desktop:
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- Internet Explorer 9.0, 10.0+
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- Internet Explorer 9.0 (may not be fully functional), 10.0+
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- Firefox 16+
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- Google Chrome 23+
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- Safari 5+
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@ -64,53 +64,42 @@ accepts contributions from the public, and we'd like you to be a part of that co
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Before contributing to Discourse, please:
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1. Review the [**VISION**](#vision) section above, which will help you understand the needs of the team, and the focus of the project,
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1. Review the [**VISION**](#vision) statement, to confirm that you understand the needs of the team and the focus of the project,
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2. Read and sign the [**Electronic Discourse Forums Contribution License Agreement**](http://discourse.org/cla), to confirm you've read and acknowledged the legal aspects of your contributions, and
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3. Dig into [**CONTRIBUTING.MD**](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md), which houses all of the necessary info to:
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- submit bugs,
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- request new features, and
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- step you through the entire process of preparing your code for a Pull Request.
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4. Have a look here: http://meta.discourse.org/t/so-you-want-to-help-out-with-discourse/3823
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4. For ideas about areas of Discourse that need your assistance with, see http://meta.discourse.org/t/so-you-want-to-help-out-with-discourse/3823
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**We look forward to seeing your cool stuff!**
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## Expertise
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In order to be an effective contributor, familiarize yourself with the various open source components that Discourse is built on:
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Discourse is built from the following open source components:
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### Languages/Frameworks
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- [Ruby on Rails](https://github.com/rails/rails) - Our back end API is a Rails app. It responds to requests RESTfully and responds in JSON.
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- [Ember.js](https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js) - Our front end is an Ember.js app that communicates with the Rails API.
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- [PostgreSQL](http://www.postgresql.org/) - Our main data store is in Postgres.
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- [Redis](http://redis.io/) - We use Redis for our job queue, rate limiting, as a cache and for transient data.
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1. [Ruby on Rails](https://github.com/rails/rails) - Our back end API is a Rails app. It responds to requests RESTfully and responds in JSON.
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2. [Ember.js](https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js) - Our front end interface is an Ember.js app that communicates with the Rails API.
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### Databases
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1. [PostgreSQL](http://www.postgresql.org/) - Our main data store is Postgres.
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2. [Redis](http://redis.io/) - We use Redis for our job queue, rate limiting, as a cache and for transient data.
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### Ruby Gems
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The complete list of Ruby Gems used by Discourse can be found in [**SOFTWARE.MD**](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/SOFTWARE.md).
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Plus *lots* of Ruby Gems, a complete list of which is at [**SOFTWARE.MD**](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/SOFTWARE.md).
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## Versioning
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Discourse implements the Semantic Versioning guidelines.
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Discourse implements the [Semantic Versioning guidelines](http://semver.org/).
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Releases will be numbered with the following format:
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`<major>.<minor>.<patch>`
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And constructed with the following guidelines:
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- Breaking backward compatibility bumps the major (and resets the minor and patch)
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- New additions without breaking backward compatibility bumps the minor (and resets the patch)
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- Bug fixes and misc changes bumps the patch
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For more information on SemVer, please visit http://semver.org/.
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## The Discourse Team
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The Discourse code contributors can be found in [**AUTHORS.MD**](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/AUTHORS.md). For a complete list of the many individuals that contributed to the design and implementation of Discourse, please refer to the official website.
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The original Discourse code contributors can be found in [**AUTHORS.MD**](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/AUTHORS.md). For a complete list of the many individuals that contributed to the design and implementation of Discourse, please refer to [the official Discourse website](http://www.discourse.org).
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## Copyright / License
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@ -127,3 +116,9 @@ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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limitations under the License.
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Discourse logo and “Discourse Forum” ®, Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc.
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## Dedication
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Discourse is built with [love, Internet style.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1TZaElTAs)
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# The Discourse Team
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* Jeff Atwood - Founder, Principal Overlord, Lead Systems Design
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* Jeff Atwood - Co-Founder, PM
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* Robin Ward - Co-Founder, Ruby developer
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* Sam Saffron - Co-Founder, Ruby developer
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* Neil Lalonde - Ruby Developer
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* Neil Lalonde - Ruby developer
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* Ryan Mudryk - UI Implementation, supplemental
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### Special Thanks To
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### Specials Thanks To
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* Nick Sahler - Intern
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* Nick Sahler - UI Implementation, supplemental
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* Ryan Mudryk - CSS and HTML design implementation
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* Don Petersen - Ruby developer, installation scripts
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*For a more detailed list of the many individuals that contributed to the design and development of Discourse outside of GitHub, please refer to the official Discourse website.*
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*This is only a list of people who contributed code to Discourse at the time of public launch on February 5th, 2013. For a more detailed list of the many individuals that contributed to the design and development of Discourse outside of GitHub, please refer to [the official Discourse website](http://www.discourse.org).*
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