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| -[](https://travis-ci.org/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice) |
| 1 | +# In Maintenance |
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| -# Welcome to DuckDuckHack! |
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| -We're a community of open source developers from around the world, contributing code to improve the DuckDuckGo search engine. |
| 3 | +DuckDuckHack is now in maintenance mode. We are only accepting pull requests for essential bug fixes. For more information see [duckduckhack.com](https://duckduckhack.com). |
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| 5 | +## What are essential bug fixes? |
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| -## How to contribute |
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| -- [**Create new Spice Instant Answers, and improve existing ones**](https://duckduckhack.com/issues) |
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| - - **Note**: Spices are written in Perl (back-end) and JavaScript (front-end). They can also typically use CSS, and [Handlebars](http://handlebarsjs.com) Templates. |
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| -- [**Visit DuckDuckHack**](https://duckduckhack.com/#get-help) to learn more about how you can help! |
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| -- [**Read the DuckDuckHack Docs**](https://docs.duckduckhack.com/) to learn how to set up a development environment and start contributing! |
| 7 | +Any changes necessary to keep existing Instant Answers functioning correctly and as expected. For example: |
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| 9 | + - Updating the URL for a Spice Instant Answer when the API changes |
| 10 | + - Correcting a Perl or JavaScript logic error |
| 11 | + - Fixing CSS that's causing the display to break |
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| -### What are Spice Instant Answers? |
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| -Spices retrieve data from third-party JSON APIs. An API call is generated at the time of the query, and the JSON data returned is used to build an Instant Answer result on the front-end. |
| 13 | +Any other changes will not be accepted. For example: |
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| -#### Example: NPM Spice |
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| -- [Code](https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice/blob/master/lib/DDG/Spice/Npm.pm) | [Example Query](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=npm+express.js&t=opera&ia=software) | [Instant Answer Page](https://duck.co/ia/view/npm) |
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| -## Resources |
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| -- Join the [DuckDuckHack Slack channel](https://quackslack.herokuapp.com/) to ask questions |
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| -- Join the [DuckDuckHack Forum](https://forum.duckduckhack.com/) to discuss project planning and Instant Answer metrics |
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| -- Read the [Spice documentation](https://docs.duckduckhack.com/walkthroughs/forum-lookup.html) for technical help |
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| -- View the list of [all live Spice Instant Answers](https://duck.co/ia?repo=spice&topic=programming) to see more examples |
| 15 | + - spelling/comment changes |
| 16 | + - unsolicited improvements, changes, and code refactoring |
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