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<a href="http://www.discourse.org/">![Logo](https://raw.github.com/discourse/discourse/master/images/discourse.png)</a>
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Discourse is the 100% open source, next-generation discussion platform built for the next 10 years of the Internet.
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Discourse is the 100% open source, next-generation discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet.
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Whenever you need ...
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* a mailing list
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* a forum to discuss something
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* a chat room where you can type paragraphs
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- a mailing list
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- a forum to discuss something
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- a chat room where you can type paragraphs
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... consider Discourse.
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## Getting Started
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If you're interested in helping us develop Discourse, please start with our **[Discourse Vagrant Developer Guide](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/VAGRANT.md)**, which includes instructions to get up and running in a development environment using a virtual machine. It's the easiest way to hack on Discourse.
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If you're interested in helping us develop Discourse, please start with our **[Discourse Vagrant Developer Guide](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/VAGRANT.md)**, which includes instructions to get up and running in a development environment using a virtual machine. It's the easiest way to hack on Discourse!
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If you're familiar with how Rails works and are comfortable setting up your own environment, you can use our **[Discourse Advanced Developer Guide](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/DEVELOPER-ADVANCED.md)**
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If you're familiar with how Rails works and are comfortable setting up your own environment, use our **[Discourse Advanced Developer Guide](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/DEVELOPER-ADVANCED.md)**.
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### Requirements
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* PostgreSQL 9.1+
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* Redis 2+
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- Ruby 1.9.3+
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- PostgreSQL 9.1+
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- Redis 2.6+
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## Vision
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This is the **Civilized Discourse Construction Kit**, a fully open-source package of forum software that is free to use and contribute to. Discourse embraces the changes that are necessary to evolve forum software, namely:
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Discourse is a **Civilized Discourse Construction Kit**, an 100% open-source discussion platform that is free for everyone to use and contribute to -- forever.
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* A **flattened discussion**, which avoids the pains of threaded forums, and delivers a more robust, intuitive interface to join a conversation at any point.
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* A **self-learning system**, capable of examining the behavior of the community, and adapting to budding moderators and forum trolls alike.
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* A **seamless web-only** interface that delivers usability on both the desktop and the tablet, without the need for a native app.
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* A **contemporary, robust technology stack**, so that both users and administrators alike have another choice BESIDES php.
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Key Discourse mission goals:
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The Discourse team wishes to **foster an active community of contributors**, all of whom commit to delivering this continued vision, and ensure that online discussions can grow and thrive in an Internet age dominated by micro-blogging and diminishing attention spans.
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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 **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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- An **advanced JavaScript app** which runs in modern browsers and works identically on desktop and tablet, without the need for a native app.
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- A **contemporary, robust technology stack**, free of legacy PHP and MySQL constraints limiting developers and administrators.
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The Discourse team wishes to **foster an active community of contributors**, all of whom commit to delivering this continued vision, ensuring that free, unfettered online discussion can grow and thrive in an Internet age dominated by micro-blogging, and diminishing attention spans. Online discussion belongs to all of us, not just huge corporate websites.
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This vision translates to the following functional commitments:
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1. Support all contemporary browsers on the desktop:
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* Internet Explorer 9.0, 10.0+
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* Firefox 16+
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* Google Chrome *infinite*
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2. Supporting the latest generation of tablets:
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* iPad 2+
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* Android 4.1+ on 7" and 10"
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* Windows 8
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3. Deliver support for mobile/smartphones *as soon as possible*:
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* Windows Phone 8
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* iPhone 4+
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* Android 4.0+
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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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- Firefox 16+
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- Google Chrome 23+
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- Safari 5+
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2. Support the latest generation of tablets, 7" or larger
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- iPad 2+
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- Android 4.1+
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- Windows 8
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3. Deliver support for the latest generation of small screen mobile/smartphones *as soon as possible*:
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- Windows Phone 8
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- iOS 5+
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- Android 4.0+
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## Contributing
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Discourse is **100% free** and **open-source**. We encourage and support an active, healthy community that
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accepts contributions from the public, and we'd like you to be a part of that community.
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In order to be prepared for contributing to Discourse, please:
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Before contributing to Discourse, please:
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1. Review the **VISION** section above, which will help you understand the needs of the team, and the focus of the project,
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2. Read & sign the **[Electronic Discourse Forums Contribution License Agreement](https://docs.google.com/a/discourse.org/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGUwejFfbDhDYXR4bVFMRG1TUENqLWc6MQ)**, to confirm you've read and acknowledged the legal aspects of your contributions, and
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2. Read and sign the **[Electronic Discourse Forums Contribution License Agreement](https://docs.google.com/a/discourse.org/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGUwejFfbDhDYXR4bVFMRG1TUENqLWc6MQ)**, 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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- 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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**We look forward to seeing your cool stuff!**
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## Expertise
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Discourse implements a variety of open source tech. You may wish to familiarize yourself with the various components that Discourse is built on, in order to be an effective contributor:
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In order to be an effective contributor, familiarize yourself with the various open source omponents that Discourse is built on:
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### Languages/Frameworks
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@ -97,9 +101,9 @@ Releases will be numbered with the following format:
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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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- 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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