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Can one prove that a website/service uses a specific open source codebase?

Suppose there is a deployed, public website/web service. They say it is an instance of an open source codebase. Can they prove it to me? For example, take the useful www.s3auth.com, an HTTP auth gateway for S3 that lets you password protect static…
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Open source project developed using TDD and Java

I'm looking for a project that: 1) Has avaiable sources including tests. 2) Was/is developed strictly using TDD. 3) Is written in Java and JUnit. Any ideas?
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Learning from open-source projects / Browsing already written code

I was wondering how valuable open-source projects are to learn from? I still consider myself "beginner" due moreso to lack of experience than lack of knowledge- I've read many C/C++ tutorials and taken classes and such, but I just really lack…
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How to keep the forked repo synced to original repo

Github says, "This branch is 10 commits ahead, 8 commits behind xyz:master". How do I make it even with the master?
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How do You Come Up With New Ideas for Open Source project?

You can see lots of briliant ideas in Open source projects. How authors found these ideas whey they don't exist yet? Should I learn software dynamics, history and trends(Nothing new under the sun?) for that? I don't want to start another github…
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Mozilla Firefox resource for bug reports and suggestions

I use Firefox for about 90% of my overall browser usage experience and periodically discover bugs or strangeness in work, also from time to time I have suggestions for improvement. So I think that it's useful for Firefox community to know about…
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Synchronization of two project editions

There is software distribution type, when one version is opensource and other is enterprise version. Enterprise version is proprietary, but based on opensource version of software. For example, GitLab CE and GitLab EE I suppose, that would be just…
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Open-source annotation/blaming tool

What is a good open-source tool for blaming / praising / annotating code (or other text that has a history)? What I mean is a tool to take code that has a history in source control and show which line came from which revision / version. I would…
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Subversion usages

I am just starting to use "Subversion" with "Tortoise SVN client" for one of my opensource project which is hosted on "Google Code". I would like to get some best practices on using it. I am following the default folder structure(trunk,branch,tag).…
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Add encrypted variables to travis.yml and push to open source project

I have been contributing to open source project & in one of the issues, I have to upload a folder to AWS S3. I have created an amazon aws account and everything is working. But I am not able to find a way to correctly encrypt the credentials in the…
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Prove that Heroku and Github run the same code

For an open source project I'm currently working on, I need people to trust a website. Basically, the user would write "foo" on his phone. It would go on the website which would take the message "foo" and send it to a server running on this user's…
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What is the TcpListener.BeginAcceptTcpClient I/O Model in DotnetCore 1.0.x

I already know the BeginXXX(AMP) or XXXAsync(TAP) use IOCP in .NetFramework , then now I want to construct httpServer build on dotnetcore . so I need to know the inner mechanism. My pervious version in .NetworkFramework like the follow code: private…
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Adding GitHub project to Launchpad PPA Package

I am trying to figure out how to add a GitHub project to my simple, working Launchpad PPA package. The GitHub project that I am try to add is https://github.com/compiz-reloaded/compiz-boxmenu. I couldn't find much help online and I'm hoping that…
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Is it ok for others to see your AdMob app-id or ad-id's? Using github for a project

This is probably a stupid question but I'm developing a project with GitHub and was wondering if it was ok for others to see your AdMob app-id and ad-id's? I assume the worse that could happen is they use it in their app and you get money from it,…
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How to obtain early version of Opera browser source code?

My project requires me to run a web browser with a customized openssl on windows. And after searching for a while, I can only find earlier version (<=version 12.18) of opera browser desktop version is using openssl. But I can not find the source…
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