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By default all services will be run. If you want to exclude specific services from running, set `COMPOSE_PROFILES` in a `.env.local` file to one or more of `minimal,images,search,payments,wallets,email,capture`. To only run mininal necessary without things like payments in `.env.local`:
By default `sndev start` will merge `docker-compose.yml` with `docker-compose.override.yml`. Specify any overrides you want to merge with `docker-compose.override.yml`.
For example, if you want to replace the db seed with a custom seed file located in `docker/db/another.sql`, you'd create a `docker-compose.override.yml` file with the following:
*This document in no way legally entitles you to payments for contributions, entitles you to being a contributor, or entitles you to the attention of other contributors. This document lays out the system we **can** use to determine contribution awards which we generally intend to abide by but importantly we reserve the right to refuse payments or contributions, modify rules and award amounts, make exceptions to rules or reward amounts, and withhold awards for any reason at anytime, even just for the heck of it, at our sole discretion. If you need more certainty than what I've just described, don't participate. We provide awards as an experiment to make FOSS less sucky.*
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## Pull request awards
### Rules
1. PRs closing an issue will be awarded according to the `difficulty` tag on an issue, e.g. `difficulty:easy` pays 100k sats.
2. Issues are occasionally marked with a `priority` tag which multiplies the award of a PR closing an issue, e.g. an issue marked with `priority:high` and `difficulty:hard` awards 2m sats.
3. An award is reduced by 10% of the award amount for each substantial change requested to the PR on code review, e.g. if two changes are requested on a PR closing an issue tagged with `difficulty:hard`, 800k sats will be awarded.
- Reductions are applied before `priority` multipliers, e.g. a PR closing a `priority:high` and `difficulty:hard` issue that's approved after two changes are requested awards 1.6m sats.
| `difficulty:good-first-issue` | at most a couple lines of code in a couple files and does not require much familiarity with the codebase | `20k sats` |
| `difficulty:easy` | at most a couple lines of code in a couple files but does require familiarity with the code base | `100k sats` |
| `difficulty:medium` | more code, more places and could require adding columns in the db and some modification chunky db queries | `250k sats` |
| `difficulty:medium-hard` | even more code, even more places and requires either more sophisticated logic, more significant db modeling eg adding a table, and/or a deeper study of a something | `500k sats` |
| `difficulty:hard` | either a bigger lift than the what's required of medium-hard or very tricky in a particular way that might not require a lot of code but does require a lot of context/troubleshooting/expertise | `1m sats` |
We try to assign difficulty and priority tags to issues accurately, but we're not perfect. If you believe an issue is mis-tagged, you can request a change to the issue's tags.
Code reviewers will be awarded the amount their code review reduced from the PR author's reward, e.g. two substantial problems/areas of improvement identified in a PR closing a `priority:high` and `difficulty:hard` issue awards 400k sats.
### Rules
1. The problem or improvement must be acknowledged as such by SN engineers explicitly
2. A PR must be merged by an SN engineer before a PR's code reviewers receive an award
Code review approvals are more than welcome, but we can't guarantee awards for them because the work performed to approve a PR is unverifiable.
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## Issue specification awards
Issue specifiers will be awarded up to 10% of a PR award for issues resulting in a PR being merged by an SN engineer that closes the issue. In addition to being subject to PR award amounts and reductions, specification amounts are awarded on the basis of how much additional help and specification is required by other contributors.
### Rules
1. The issue must directly result in PR being merged by an SN engineer that closes the issue
2. Issue specification award amounts are based on the final PR award amounts
- that is, they are subject to PR award code review reductions and priority multipliers
3. Award amounts will be reduced on the basis of how much additional help and specification is required by other contributors
4. Issue specifiers who can close their own issues with their own PRs are also eligible for this 10%
- e.g an issue tagged as `difficulty:hard` that is both specified and closed by a PR from the same contributor without changes requested awards 1.1m sats
| issue doesn't require further help and/or specification from other contributors | 10% |
| issue requires little help and/or specification from other contributors | 5% |
| issue requires more help and/or specification from other contributors than the issue specifier contributed | 1% |
| issue is vague and/or incomplete and must mostly be entirely specified by someone else | 0% |
For example: a specified issue that's tagged as `difficulty:hard`, doesn't require additional specification and disambiguation by other contributors, and results in PR being merged without changes requested awards the issue specifier 100k sats.
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## Responsible disclosure of security or privacy vulnerability awards
Awards for responsible disclosures are assessed on the basis of:
1. the potential loss resulting from an exploit of the vulnerability
2. the trivialness of exploiting the vulnerability
3. the disclosure's detail
Award amounts will be easiest to assess on a case by case basis. Upon confirmation of a vulnerability, we agree to award responsible disclosures at minimum 100k sats and as high as the total potential loss that would result from exploiting the vulnerability.
1. Disclosure is responsible and does not increase the likelihood of an exploit.
2. Disclosure includes steps to reproduce.
3. Disclosure includes a realistic attack scenario with prerequisites for an attack and expected gains after the exploitation. Disclosures without such scenario, with unrealistic assumptions or without meaningful outcomes will not be eligible for awards.
4. You must be the first person to responsibly disclose the issue to be eligible for awards.
For significant changes to documentation, create an issue before making said changes. In such cases we will award documentation improvements in accordance with issue specification and PR awards.
For changes on the order of something like a typo, we'll award a nominal amount at our discretion.
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## Helpfulness awards
Like issue specification awards, helping fellow contributors substantially in a well documented manner such that the helped fellow contributes a merged PR is eligible for a one-time relative reward.
We want to make contributing to SN as rewarding as possible, so we offer a few extras to contributors.
## Dev chat
We self-host a private chat server for contributors to SN. If you'd like to join, please respond in this [discussion](https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/discussions/1059).
## Triage permissions
We offer triage permissions to contributors after they've made a few contributions. I'll usually add them as I notice people contributing, but if I missed you and you'd like to be added, let me know!
## Contributor badges on SN profiles
Contributors can get badges on their SN profiles by opening a pull request adding their SN nym to the [contributors.txt](/contributors.txt) file.
## What else you got
In the future we plan to offer more, like gratis github copilot subscriptions, reverse tunnels, codespaces, and merch.
If you'd like to see something added, please make a suggestion.
We use [JavaScript Standard Style](https://standardjs.com/) to enforce code style and correctness. You should run `sndev lint` before submitting a PR.
If you're using VSCode, you can install the [StandardJS VSCode Extension](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=standard.vscode-standard) extension to get linting in your editor. We also recommend installing [StandardJS code snippets](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=capaj.vscode-standardjs-snippets) and [StandardJS react code snippets](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TimonVS.ReactSnippetsStandard) for code snippets.
We use [prisma](https://www.prisma.io/) for our database migrations. To create a new migration, modify `prisma/schema.prisma` according to [prisma schema reference](https://www.prisma.io/docs/orm/reference/prisma-schema-reference) and apply it with:
If you want to create a migration without applying it, eg to create a trigger or modify the generated sql before applying, use the `--create-only` option:
`./sndev prisma migrate dev --create-only`
Generate the local copy of the prisma ORM client in `node_modules` after changes. This should only be needed to get Intellisense in your editor locally.
`./sndev prisma generate`
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## Connecting to the local database
You can connect to the local database via `./sndev psql`. [psql](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/app-psql.html) is an interactive terminal for working with PostgreSQL.
You can run `lncli` on the local lnd nodes via `./sndev cli lnd` and `./sndev cli sn_lnd`. The node for your local SN instance is `sn_lnd` and the node serving as any external node, like a stacker's node or external wallet, is `lnd`.
You can login to test features like posting, replying, tipping, etc with `./sndev login <nym>` which will provide a link to login as an existing nym or a new account for a nonexistent nym. But, it you want to test auth specifically you'll need to configure them in your `.env` file.
To enable Web Push locally, you will need to set the `VAPID_*` env vars. `VAPID_MAILTO` needs to be an email address using the `mailto:` scheme. For `NEXT_PUBLIC_VAPID_PUBKEY` and `VAPID_PRIVKEY`, you can run `npx web-push generate-vapid-keys`.
The site is written in javascript (not typescript 😱) using [Next.js](https://nextjs.org/), a [React](https://react.dev/) framework. The backend API is provided via [GraphQL](https://graphql.org/). The database is [PostgreSQL](https://www.postgresql.org/) modeled with [Prisma](https://www.prisma.io/). The [job queue](https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss) is also maintained in PostgreSQL. We use [lnd](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd) for our lightning node. A customized [Bootstrap](https://react-bootstrap.netlify.app/) theme is used for styling.
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## Services
Currently, SN runs and maintains two significant services and one microservice:
To ensure stackers balances are kept sane, some wallet updates are run in [serializable transactions](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/transaction-iso.html#XACT-SERIALIZABLE) at the database level. Because early versions of prisma had relatively poor support for transactions most wallet touching code is written in [plpgsql](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/plpgsql.html) stored procedures and can be found in the `prisma/migrations` folder.
*UPDATE*: Most wallet updates are now run in [read committed](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/transaction-iso.html#XACT-READ-COMMITTED) transactions. See `api/paidAction/README.md` for more information.
Open a [discussion](http://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/discussions) or [issue](http://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/issues/new) or [email us](mailto:kk@stacker.news) or request joining the [dev chat](#dev-chat).
If you found a vulnerability, we would greatly appreciate it if you contact us via [security@stacker.news](mailto:security@stacker.news) or open a [security advisory](https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/security/advisories/new). Our PGP key can be found [here](https://stacker.news/pgp.txt) (EBAF 75DA 7279 CB48).
