This morning I read a short article on the maintainer of GitHub desktop, William Shepherd. For some reason, I kept seeing the article everywhere so eventually I surrendered to it. The post had a number of good points but the highlight for me was the advice to anyone maintaining an open-source project:

• Have a clear vision of what you’d like your project to accomplish and be open to refining it when it makes sense
• Have a detailed README that includes information on how to contribute to the project, submit bug reports, and a code of conduct
• Work hard to make your project inclusive of all people from the start
• Make your project easy to implement by eliminating the amount of work potential contributors have to do to build and run your project
• Don’t put the needs of your project ahead of your own

You can read the full article on GitHub’s blog.