I was chatting with a friend, and she mentioned how she tries to at least set up a README, which includes her vision for the project and her plan for the implementation, design, and goals.
Best case scenario is that the planning helps her complete the project herself. Worst case scenario, someone else can pick up where she left off and use her considerations for the project.
I'm thinking of doing that for future projects too
ReadMe is always underestimated while project is building, but it can become a cornerstone if it's setup from very beginning. Your friend is smart π
A Free Software License is even more important. There are many great projects out there which you can't modify etc. because the project isn't distributed with a license (which means "all rights reserved" in most jurisdictions).
Better to have tried and stopped than never to have started at all
Exactly π―
Heck yeah, you always learn something after all!
I have my repos on Codeberg and one of the 'disadvantages' is that, well, it's a non-profit, so I genuinely don't want to waste their resources.
They ask you to only host open-source repos there, meaning that using it for backups of shitty personal projects, even if I would throw in an open-source license, is just out of the question for me.And that has weirdly been a blessing in disguise. Like, if it's not useful for humanity to see, do I really care to keep it around forever?
And I've had three projects now where I felt an obligation to push them over the finish line of actually making them a useful open-source project. Which had me iron out some of the usability shortcuts I took, made me learn a good amount of code quality stuff and of course, just feels good to complete.
Well, Codeberg is a non-profit. I would say if it's just a few kilobytes/megabytes of code, upload it and donate $10. That should be enough to store that for decades.
I sometimes look for small stuff. Boilerplate code, how other people configure stuff that isn't well documented, niche interest stuff even if it's not finished. Sometimes stuff like that is useful.
That's why I host all my shitty unfinished projects in a Gitea instance in my VPS. Now they actively cost me money and I feel (a tiny bit) more incentivized to do so something with them!
The pinche squirrels do this to our Japanese pear tree! They take one single bite out of every fruit on the tree. It's so annoying! We managed to get 2 whole pears off of the tree last summer. They do the same thing with our peach tree, but we were unable to salvage even a single peach. Of course we could probably get rid of the squirrels if we stopped feeding the birds, but the birds are awesome, and the squirrels are pretty fun to watch.
What is a "finished" GitHub repo?
