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# Chihaya

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Chihaya is an open source [BitTorrent tracker] written in [Go].

Differentiating features include:

- Extensible, middleware-oriented request flow that is customized in a [YAML] configuration file
- Low resource consumption, and fast, asynchronous request processing
- Unified IPv4 and IPv6 support

[BitTorrent tracker]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_tracker
[Go]: https://golang.org
[YAML]: http://yaml.org

## Getting Started

TODO(jzelinskie): I should fill this section in

## Development

Long-term discussion and bug reports are maintained via [GitHub Issues].
Code review is done via [GitHub Pull Requests].

[GitHub Issues]: https://github.com/chihaya/chihaya/issues
[GitHub Pull Requests]: https://github.com/chihaya/chihaya/pulls

## Related projects

- [OpenTracker](http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/opentracker): a popular BitTorrent tracker written in C
- [Ocelot](https://github.com/WhatCD/Ocelot): a private BitTorrent tracker written in C++

## License

Chihaya is distributed under the 2-Clause BSD license that can be found in the `LICENSE` file.