Questions tagged [open-source]
For questions about the Open Source aspects of the software that makes up the Stack Exchange Network. Do not use this tag for questions about unrelated or your own open source projects.
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Should SE partly open source their code?
Given the enormous backlog of over 20 000 feature requests and over 10 000 open bug reports it is clear that SE can not keep up with the needs/wants of the community at large.
SE could open source the ...
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Stack Gives Back to Open Source 2022
Beginning 2010, we have made annual donations to charities on behalf of moderators through the Stack Gives Back program. At the same time, in recognition of the many ways that we benefit from open ...
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Could SE be *actually* convinced to open source chat?
While usually nothing good ever comes out of Twitter—a recent tweet by the former Community Manager Tim Post caught my eye
I wish we'd put more effort into the Bonfire chat we developed at Stack ...
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Is Stack Exchange contributing back to ProseMirror?
Stack Exchange has released an alpha version of a new WYSIWYG editor based on the open source project ProseMirror.
In addition to benefitting from this open source work, is SE giving back to it and ...
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Issue badges as open digital badges (Open Badges)
Stack Exchange badges are limited in the sense that they are only easy to view and display on the associated Stack Exchange sites. A user wishing to display their badges to the world generally must do ...
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Is it OK to publish or reverse engineer the PageDown + MathJax integration code?
The math sites have a nice Pagedown + MathJax integration.
It seems mostly based on this Apache 2-licensed code by MathJax developer David Cervone with some minor updates to work around an IE bug ...
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Any plans on making the `chat` platform into an opensource platform like discourse?
This is following Jeff's advice. I asked him:
How about plans to making the current SEN chat into an opensource platform like Discourse?
To which he quickly answered:
Don't know, you would have to ...
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Open sourcing Stack Exchange Android App [duplicate]
There are many feature requests for the Android app. I asked for like 4 features and others have asked for more features that aren't added yet. I know that the developers team might be busy fixing ...
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How to offer personal open-source libraries?
I noticed that there are a bunch of questions asked on how to advertise or link to open-source contributions in the Meta section, but they all seemed to be geared towards actual advertising of open-...
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Create small package combining SO answers? [duplicate]
I'd like to combine 2-3 existing SO answers (and add an icon and .desktop etc.) to create a small, but useful open-source (Debian) package. I can license everything under "CC-by-SA 3.0", which is the ...
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arrows not updated when ordering open source projects in careers profile
When using the arrows on the right side to change the order of your open source projects the arrows are not updated properly. The first and last initially just have a down and up arrow respectively. ...
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Careers 2.0 - Open source section - can't add technolgies
Keep on getting this 'Use Original' link, and it doesn't seem to like what I enter into technogloies. After that, I can't save (well, the save button is there but does nothing), and I loose my ...
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Stackoverflow Careers Site not pulling all Github open source contributions [duplicate]
When I click the Github button under Open Source Contributions, I only see my own repos and a couple of the repos that I have made contributions to; there are about 5+ other repos that I have made ...
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Why can't I enter an open source project on my Careers profile if I don't have write access?
I contribute to a few open source projects for which I don't have VCS write access (the main developer prefers patches instead or I simply don't contribute that often) so I can't use the built-in sf....
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Does being a contributor or owner of an open source project count as it being "yours"?
How close does a user have to be to an open source project before they have to acknowledge their involvement or provide a disclaimer of their relationship with the product?
The FAQ entry on "Self-...
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