# Storj V3 Network
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Storj is building a decentralized cloud storage network.
[Check out our white paper for more info!](https://storj.io/white-paper)
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Storj is an S3-compatible platform and suite of decentralized applications that
allows you to store data in a secure and decentralized manner. Your files are
encrypted, broken into little pieces and stored in a global decentralized
network of computers. Luckily, we also support allowing you (and only you) to
retrieve those files!
## Table of Contents
- [Contributing](#contributing-to-storj)
- [Start using Storj](#start-using-storj)
- [License](#license)
- [Support](#support)
# Contributing to Storj
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All of our code for Storj v3 is open source. Have a code change you think would make Storj better? Please send a pull request along! Make sure to sign our [Contributor License Agreement (CLA)](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdVzD5W8rx-J_jLaPuG31nbOzS8yhNIIu4yHvzonji6NeZ4ig/viewform) first. See our [license section](#license) for more details.
Have comments or bug reports? Want to propose a PR before hand-crafting it? Jump on to our [forum](https://forum.storj.io) and join the [Engineering Discussions](https://forum.storj.io/c/engineer-amas) to say hi to the developer community and to talk to the Storj core team.
Want to vote on or suggest new features? Post it on the [forum](https://forum.storj.io/c/parent-cat/5).
### Issue tracking and roadmap
See the breakdown of what we're building by checking out the following resources:
* [White paper](https://storj.io/whitepaper)
### Install required packages
To get started running Storj locally, download and install the latest release of Go (at least Go 1.13) at [golang.org](https://golang.org).
You will also need [Git](https://git-scm.com/). (`brew install git`, `apt-get install git`, etc).
If you're building on Windows, you also need to install and have [gcc](https://gcc.gnu.org/install/binaries.html) setup correctly.
We support Linux, Mac, and Windows operating systems. Other operating systems supported by Go should also be able to run Storj.
### Download and compile Storj
> **Aside about GOPATH**: Go 1.11 supports a new feature called Go modules,
> and Storj has adopted Go module support. If you've used previous Go versions,
> Go modules no longer require a GOPATH environment variable. Go by default
> falls back to the old behavior if you check out code inside of the directory
> referenced by your GOPATH variable, so make sure to use another directory,
> `unset GOPATH` entirely, or set `GO111MODULE=on` before continuing with these
> instructions.
First, fork our repo and clone your copy of our repository.
```bash
git clone git@github.com:/storj storj
cd storj
```
Then, let's install Storj.
```bash
go install -v ./cmd/...
```
### Make changes and test
Make the changes you want to see! Once you're done, you can run all of the unit tests:
```bash
go test -v ./...
```
You can also execute only a single test package if you like. For example:
`go test ./pkg/identity`. Add `-v` for more informations about the executed unit
tests.
### Push up a pull request
Use Git to push your changes to your fork:
```bash
git commit -a -m 'my changes!'
git push origin main
```
Use Github to open a pull request!
### A Note about Versioning
While we are practicing [semantic versioning](https://semver.org/) for our client
libraries such as [uplink](https://github.com/storj/uplink), we are *not* practicing
semantic versioning in this repo, as we do not intend for it to be used via
[Go modules](https://blog.golang.org/using-go-modules). We may have
backwards-incompatible changes between minor and patch releases in this repo.
# Start using Storj
Our wiki has [documentation and tutorials](https://github.com/storj/storj/wiki).
Check out these three tutorials:
* [Using the Storj Test Network](https://github.com/storj/storj/wiki/Test-network)
* [Using the Uplink CLI](https://github.com/storj/storj/wiki/Uplink-CLI)
* [Using the S3 Gateway](https://github.com/storj/storj/wiki/S3-Gateway)
# License
The network under construction (this repo) is currently licensed with the
[AGPLv3](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html) license. Once the network
reaches beta phase, we will be licensing all client-side code via the
[Apache v2](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) license.
For code released under the AGPLv3, we request that contributors sign our
[Contributor License Agreement (CLA)](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdVzD5W8rx-J_jLaPuG31nbOzS8yhNIIu4yHvzonji6NeZ4ig/viewform) so that we can relicense the
code under Apache v2, or other licenses in the future.
# Support
If you have any questions or suggestions please reach out to us on
[our community forum](https://forum.storj.io/) or file a ticket at
https://support.storj.io/.