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[Ana Beatriz Guerrero López]

The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit f83b4f0886f74608e69e4325ec878145e980ad38
Author: Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana at ekaia.org>
Date:   Tue Jul 2 18:57:55 2013 +0200

    add zack's post about sources.d.n

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+Title: all Debian source are belong to us
+Date: 2013-07-02 18:50
+Tags: mirror, announce, sources
+Slug: introducing_sources.debian.net
+Author:  Ana Guerrero
+Status: published
+
+**This is a verbatim repost from [Stefano Zacchiroli's
+post](http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2013/07/introducing_sources.debian.net/)**
+
+
+**TL;DR**: go to **<http://sources.debian.net>** and enjoy.
+
+----
+
+[**Debsources**](http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=qa/debsources.git) is a
+new toy I've been working on at [IRILL](http://www.irill.org) together with
+[Matthieu Caneill](http://matthieu-blog.fr/). In essence, debsources is a
+simple web application that allows to **publish an unpacked Debian source
+mirror on the Web**.
+
+You can deploy Debsources where you please, but there is a main instance at
+**<http://sources.debian.net>** (`sources.d.n` for short) that you will
+probably find interesting. `sources.d.n` follows closely the Debian archive in
+two ways:
+
+1. it is updated 4 times a day to reflect the content of the Debian archive
+2. it contains sources coming from official Debian suites: the usual ones
+   (from oldstable to experimental), `*-updates` (ex volatile),
+   `*-proposed-updates`, and `*-backports` (from Wheezy on)
+
+Via `sources.d.n` you can therefore browse the content of Debian source
+packages with usual code viewing features like **syntax highlighting**. More
+interestingly, you can **search through** the source code (of unstable only,
+though) via integration with <http://codesearch.debian.net>. You can also use
+`sources.d.n` programmatically to
+[query available versions](http://sources.debian.net/doc/api/) or
+[**link to specific lines**](http://sources.debian.net/doc/url/), with the
+possibility of adding contextual **pop-up messages**
+([example](http://sources.debian.net/src/cowsay/3.03%2Bdfsg1-4/cowsay?hl=22:28&msg=22:Cowsay:See?%20Cowsay%20variables%20are%20declared%20here.#L22)).
+
+In fact, you might have stumbled upon `sources.d.n` already in the past few
+days, via other popular Debian services where it has already been integrated.
+In particular: `codesearch.d.n` now defaults to show results via `sources.d.n`,
+and the [PTS](http://packages.qa.debian.org/) has grown new "browse source
+code" hyperlinks that point to it. If you've ideas of other Debian services
+where `sources.d.n` should be integrated, please let me know.
+
+I find Debsources and `sources.d.n` already quite useful but, as it often
+happens, there is still a lot
+[**TODO**](http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=qa/debsources.git;a=blob;f=TODO;hb=HEAD).
+Obviously, it is all Free Software (released under GNU AGPLv3). Do not hesitate
+to report new bugs and, better, to submit patches for the outstanding ones.
+
+
+## Acknowledgements
+
+* [Matthieu Caneill](http://matthieu-blog.fr/) is the main developer of
+  Debsources web front-end; `sources.d.n` wouldn't exist without him.
+* others have already contributed patches to integrate `sources.d.n` with other
+  services, in particular:
+  * many thanks to Michael Stapelberg (for `codesearch.d.n` integration), and
+  * Paul Wise (for PTS integration).
+* a full list of
+  [contributors](http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=qa/debsources.git;a=blob;f=AUTHORS;hb=HEAD)
+  is available and eagerly waiting for new additions
+* [IRILL](http://www.irill.org) has kindly provided sponsoring for Matthieu's
+  initial development work on Debsources, and offered both the server and
+  hosting facilities that power `sources.d.n`
+
+**PS** in case you were wondering: at present `sources.d.n` requires **~381
+GB** of disk space to hold all uncompressed source packages, plus ~83 GB for
+the local (compressed) source mirror

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