Thank you very much for your interest in this project!
Contributions are possible by various means.
Feedback is very important and most welcome! You can currently use the issue tracker or the gitter room to leave feedback or say hi. You can also access the gitter room using your favorite matrix client.
If you don't like to sign up to github/matrix or like to reach me
personally, you can make a mail to info [at] docspell.org or on
matrix, via @eikek:matrix.org.
If you find a feature request already filed, you can vote on it. I tend to prefer most voted requests to those without much attention.
The website https://docspell.org contains the main documentation and
is also hosted in this repository. The sources are in /website
folder. It is built using zola, a
static site generator.
If you want to contribute to the documentation, please see the README in this folder for how to get started. It is recommended to install nix in order to not fiddle with dependencies.
The main content is in /website/site/content and sibling directories.
There are always two versions of the website: the currently released
version and the development version (which is becoming the next
release). If you want to contribute to the current docs, please base
your PR off the current-docs branch.
Code is very welcome, too, of course.
If you want to work on something larger, please create an issue or let's discuss it on gitter first.
The backend of docspell is written in Scala using a pure functional style. It builds on great libraries from the typelevel ecosystem, i.e. cats, fs2, doobie and http4s. The backend consists of two components: a http/rest server and the job executor, both running in separate processes.
The web frontend is written in Elm, which is a nice functional language that compiles to javascript. The frontend is included in the http/restserver component. The CSS is provided by TailwindCSS..
The development page contains some tips to get started.