From 66c6699142d95cce9e5c9d49e0498161a776cc22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Wong Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 00:47:15 +0000 Subject: doc: new docs for user-level commands Hopefully more folks can download and run public-inbox, nowadays. --- HACKING | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'HACKING') diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING index 3c2235a4..3435775c 100644 --- a/HACKING +++ b/HACKING @@ -36,12 +36,14 @@ 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, and +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. -- cgit v1.2.3-24-ge0c7