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<h1>Debsources now has a HACKING file</h1>
<p>Here at <a href="http://debconf14.debconf.org/">DebConf14</a> I
have given a few talks. The second one has been a technical talk
about recent and future developments on <a href=
"http://sources.debian.net">Debsources</a>. Both the talk <a href=
"https://upsilon.cc/~zack/talks/2014/20140826-dc14-debsources.pdf">slides</a>
and <a href=
"http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2014/debconf14/webm/Debsources_powering_sourcesdebiannet.webm">
video</a> are available.</p>
<p>After the talk, various DebConf participants have approached me
and started hacking on Debsources, which is awesome! As a result of
their work, new shiny features will probably be announced shortly.
Stay tuned.</p>
<p>When discussing with new contributors (hi Luciano, Raphael!),
though, it quickly became clear that getting started with
Debsources hacking wasn't particularly easy. In particular, doing a
local deployment for testing purposes might be intimidating, due to
the need of having a (partial) source mirror and whatnot. To fix
that, I have now written a <strong><a href=
"http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/qa/debsources.git/tree/HACKING">HACKING</a>
file for Debsources</strong>, which you can find at top-level in
the Git repo.</p>
<p>Happy Debsources hacking!</p>