It'd be nice to have build instructions in the source root of the provided tarballs (e.g. https://www.bitfarm-archiv.de/downloads/bitfarm-Archiv-DMS-GPL-Sources-3.4.5.zip) with instructions how to get started (in a file called INSTALL or HACKING following GNU conventions). It's quite hard for eventual contributors getting a first impression of the code to figure out the hints in required.txt which aren't even sufficient to figure out how to build the project.
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It'd be nice to have build instructions in the source root of the provided tarballs (e.g. https://www.bitfarm-archiv.de/downloads/bitfarm-Archiv-DMS-GPL-Sources-3.4.5.zip) with instructions how to get started (in a file called
INSTALLorHACKINGfollowing GNU conventions). It's quite hard for eventual contributors getting a first impression of the code to figure out the hints inrequired.txtwhich aren't even sufficient to figure out how to build the project.