What About Issue Tracking?
It’s a very rare FOSS project that doesn’t use an issue tracker of some sort. Yours is unlikely to be an exception to that rule, so if an issue tracker is in play…how do you want people to use it? Sure, you may think you don’t care, but that not-caring will last only until someone submits an issue that doesn’t at all adhere to your previously latent and unexpressed preferences for how to write a good issue.
Before you release your project, take a few minutes to consider what you would like to see in an issue, and then, to document those guidelines as well as guidelines for the care and feeding of an issue. Walk people through the stages an issue passes through on the way toward completion and/or closure. If necessary, ...
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