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Expand Up @@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ Don't know where to start? Check issues labeled [`help wanted`](https://github.c
### Curation

- Software with no development activity for 6-12 months may be removed from the list
- Unmaintained software without an active community and/or with persistent security issues may be removed from the list
- Non-working software may be removed from the list
- Unmaintained software without an active community may be removed from the list
- Software with persistent, serious security issues will be removed from the list
- Problems should be reported automatically: [![](https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted-data/actions/workflows/check-dead-links.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted-data/issues/1) [![](https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted-data/actions/workflows/check-unmaintained-projects.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted-data/issues/1)

### Add software to the list
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- If the project is forked from another project, please add `(fork of $PROJECT)` at the end of the description.
- If the project distributes a single static binary, please add the programming language in which it is written.

### What does not qualify

- Software that depends on a specific cloud provider
- Desktop/mobile/common-line applications which rely on a separate file synchronization/server program
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For consistency, we should start that bullet point also with “Software that…” or drop “Software that” entirely. e.g.:

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- Desktop/mobile/common-line applications which rely on a separate file synchronization/server program
- Software that is a desktop, mobile, or command-line application, which relies on a separate file synchronisation/server program

- Software that requires you to write application code before producing a working end-user application (libraries, SDKs, ...)
- Software acts as a platform to build and deploy arbitrary applications (PaaS, "serverless"...)
- Anything that is a generic container/deployment automation/virtualization/... tool is better suited for [awesome-sysadmin](https://github.com/awesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin)
- Software contributions that merely port an existing application to another system (e.g., Dockerization)

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