proposed foss development guideline: every commit should make the project easier to fork (or at least not make it more difficult to fork)
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@aparrish That feels EXTRAORDINARILY difficult, no? like especially, /every/ commit?
... hmm, in like a Release Notes listing, what might be some examples of "Forkability improvement: ..." the was release notes often have "Feature: ..." or "Bugfix: ..." or "Documentation: ..." ?
@aparrish One person elsewhere in the comments has talked about "making building it/configuring the build environment easier". So that's one.
But it feels like (not in a criticizing way) one of the more distant-from-the-code-itself places already at that.
I feel like there's gotta be more, but,,
@gaditb @aparrish ya, I don't even know how to do this.
I would think every added feature makes this harder.
The easiest thing to fork would be an empty repo, no?
I can get on board with not introducing unnecessary difficulty in forking, but what is necessary is going to always be up to interpretation.
