README.md

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 # hilde
 
 A server implementation of a Debian repository.
+
+## Development
+
+To develop this project, you'll need a few things:
+
+* Docker (for setting up the database)
+* Cargo & Rust stable (all hail Rocket v0.5)
+* The PostgreSQL dev libraries (to compile Diesel)
+
+That's the ones I can think of right now. If I think of any others, I'll be
+sure to add them to the list.
+
+For ease of development, there's a Makefile wrapper that can do everything you
+need to do to work on Hilde. I recommend reading through it (it's not long),
+but the important ones are `make` & `make run`, which are just Cargo aliases,
+and `make db`, which starts a local PostgreSQL database using Docker.