As a systems administrator, I'm not excited by exciting. I'm not moved by novel. What really catches my eye is the tried-and-true, worked-just-fine-for-my-grandparents, by-the-book, or merely boring.
This repository collects all the best examples of boring that can be found. Sometimes that means minimalist, sometimes that means boilerplate. Often it won't include the newest features. But it absolutely should contain examples of the features used by 95% of people, in the way those people will usually expect.
For example, out CONTRIBUTING.md is the result of believing every project should have Contributing guidelines for how to:
- find the permanent home of your contributing info via http://contributing.appspot.com
- directly contact the maintainer (esp for security concerns)
- write a good bug report: http://www.webkit.org/quality/bugwriting.html
- write code in the appropriate style
- bootstrap a local development environment
- run automated tests
- ask for help
- help other folks in using the project
This contributing assumes you've:
- created a contributing-permalink (recommended: http://contributing.appspot.com)
- have an maintainer-email-address for private email
- have a chat-room (recommended: Freenode IRC or Slack)
- have a mailing-list (recommended: Discourse or Groups.io)
- have an issue-tracker (recommended: GitLab or GitHub)
The Most Boring Project would not be possible without these delightfully boring projects: