Here's a neat GitHub feature that I haven't noticed before: if you hover over Contributors, it shows you profile pictures of major contributors!
This picture is from https://github.com/github/semantic.
Reminds me of JS projects that generate READMEs with this visualisation.
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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.
