Bootstrapping an Open Source Project on GitHub
summary
Practical checklist for launching on GitHub with concrete policies and tools: use GitHub Actions for CI and claim the three open source resources it offers, enforce conventional commits for changelog automation, adopt semantic versioning and automated releases via tagged commits to guarantee reproducible builds, forbid merge commits and enable the branch protection setting require branches to be updated before merging, run CI across supported OSes and JDK versions, add labeled “good first issue” tiers and maintain checklists for manual workflows.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Bootstrapping an Open Source Project on GitHub
- 0:49Project Vision
- 2:35Automation
- 5:44Release Management
- 8:29Version Control
- 11:42Issue Management
- 13:03Product Mindset
- 16:31Copy best practices shamelessly (but not mindlessly) from other projects.
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