Did you know that the Emacs core contributors use continuous integration? https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/emacs-trunk (It even uses nix!)
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Programming is a team activity: the vast majority of projects have multiple contributors. Yet all the films I've seen show a solo programmer at a keyboard.
Have any movies got this right?
I'm hesitant to write "written in $LANG" on my project READMEs. I'd rather get users excited about the features than the implementation.
Maybe it makes sense if you're primarily seeking contributors?
GCC will no longer require copyright assignment to the FSF! https://lwn.net/Articles/857791/
It's definitely a hurdle (I've done the paperwork in several jobs) so this should really help new/casual contributors.