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+
+# dotenv environment variables file
+.env
+env.json
+
+*.env.list
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+# Add a new harvest source
+
+This is a document in progress detailing the steps necessary to add a new harvest source.
+
+## Community Engagement
+When adding a new harvest source, the points to be considered are located  at https://docs.clearlydefined.io/adding-sources#adding-a-new-harvest-source.  Please include these considerations and document them in your GitHub issue, similar to https://github.com/clearlydefined/service/issues/882.
+
+## Crawler
+Need to implement:
+- xxFetch, which is responsible for downloading package and registry information.
+- xxExtract, which is responsible for creating a document based on the fetched information and queuing up scan tools and invoking source discovery.
+- To enable the queuing of scan tools, config/map.js needs to be updated.
+
+Example commit:
+```
+Commit: ea1618de0de4663b4d9aeecc9cdbc392edb2feba [ea1618d]
+Parents: 968422b174
+Author: Nell Shamrell nells@microsoft.com
+Date: October 27, 2021 4:16:41 PM
+Committer: Nell Shamrell
+adds support for fetching and extracting go packages to the crawler
+```
+
+## Service
+
+1. ClearlyDescribedSummarizer
+
+Example commit:
+```
+Commit: 5e8b305f108b8cc9bd18c35ad5c626f71c081ef2 [5e8b305]
+Parents: 6906969865
+Author: Nell Shamrell nells@microsoft.com
+Date: August 3, 2021 2:55:44 PM
+Committer: Nell Shamrell
+Commit Date: October 27, 2021 3:56:37 PM
+adds in code and test for determining urls for a go package
+```
+2. /origin endpoint (for ui query)
+
+Example commit:
+```
+Commit: 8c057670781451cfd7ca22337cecacae2124ac85 [8c05767]
+Parents: 542c02763d
+Author: Nell Shamrell nells@microsoft.com
+Date: October 28, 2021 4:17:40 PM
+Committer: Nell Shamrell
+adds ability to get go package revisions through the service API
+```
+3. update validation schemas
+
+Example commit:
+```
+Commit: 21e11c45b97c06170f436db498c534ff079443d3 [21e11c4]
+Parents: 90c8414909
+Author: Nell Shamrell nells@microsoft.com
+Date: July 29, 2021 3:17:35 PM
+Committer: Nell Shamrell
+Commit Date: October 27, 2021 3:55:33 PM
+adds go as a type in schemas
+```
+## Documentation
+Adaptation to reflect the new harvest source in the following documents:
+- service/README.md
+- service/swagger.yaml
+- service/docs/determining-declared-license.md
+- clearlydefined/docs/adding-sources.md