purplebooth / a-good-readme-template

A template to make good README.md

Project Title

One Paragraph of the project description

Initially appeared on gist. But the page cannot open anymore so that is why I have moved it here.

Getting Started

These instructions will give you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on deploying the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

Requirements for the software and other tools to build, test and push

• Example 1
• Example 2

Installing

A step by step series of examples that tell you how to get a development environment running

Say what the step will be

Give the example

And repeat

until finished

End with an example of getting some data out of the system or using it for a little demo

Running the tests

Explain how to run the automated tests for this system

Sample Tests

Explain what these tests test and why

Give an example

Style test

Checks if the best practices and the right coding style has been used.

Give an example

Deployment

Add additional notes to deploy this on a live system

Built With

• Contributor Covenant - Used for the Code of Conduct
• Creative Commons - Used to choose the license

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Versioning

We use Semantic Versioning for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Authors

• Billie Thompson - Provided README Template - PurpleBooth

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the CC0 1.0 Universal Creative Commons License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

• Hat tip to anyone whose code is used
• Inspiration
• etc

a-good-readme-template's Issues

Using the templates on this repo for my project

Am I allowed to use most of the contents without much modification?
Should I include citations/reference ti the source?
I am fairly new to open source community and just worried about getting in trouble for inappropriate use of others' work.

I am currently looking into using the templates for CONTRIBUTING.md and CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md.

Thanks!

It looks great. I appreciate what you did here.