Open Source and Community

Selecting third party components

Our open source projects are currently under the LGPL license.

Checklists from Toughtbot's "Maintaining Open Source Projects"

Cf. <https://gumroad.com/l/maintaining-open-source-projects/>

Contributions

Points to address:

Adopt a style guide
Use static analysis tools
Request regression tests for every change
Run tests on every commit
Set priorities

Documentation

Points to address:

Write a Readme document (Cf. <https://github.com/noffle/art-of-readme>).
Write a History document
Write a Contributing document
Write a Guidelines document
Write a Releasing document

Versionning & Releasing

Points to address:

Semantic versioning
Regular release cycles
Deprecation cycles
Security releases

Community

Points to address:

Communication channels
Answering questions
Issue tracker gardening
Enough communication already!
On effective feedback
Expectations and guilt