I was contemplating if I could easily send a PR or two towards the NewsBlur repository on GitHub and the install directions seem fairly well detailed, but also extremely daunting to just setting up a "hackable" development environment. Have you considered maybe doing something like setting up a clonable Ubuntu VM image that could help bootstrap development environments?
It would almost be great too if somehow there was an easy way to build a version of the main web interface that was truly "client-like" and let you hack on the main web templates but target the production API like you might if you were working on any other client. I realize from glancing at the repository it would probably be a fairly big refactor/rewrite, but maybe something to keep in the back of your head should the time come for the next major NewsBlur rewrite to consider making the website itself an API client.
Posted 2 months ago
