richzhang / starter-repo

Documentation templates for use in open source and open development projects

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This repository contains templates for project documentation, ensuring necessary legal and contributor documentation is explicit. All sections below in this README.md should be considered a template for a typical project README.md.

PROJECT NAME

A short description of what this project does.

Goals

It is a good idea to provide a mission statement for your project, enshrining what the project wants to accomplish so that as more people join your project everyone can work in alignment.

Non-Goals

It is also a good idea to declare what are not goals of the project to prevent potential feature creep.

Installation

Instructions for how to download/install the code onto your machine.

Example:

npm install myProject --save

Usage

Usage instructions for your code.

Example:

var myMod = require('mymodule');

myMod.foo('hi');

Contributing

Contributions are welcomed! Read the Contributing Guide for more information.

Licensing

This project is licensed under the Apache V2 License. See LICENSE for more information.

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Documentation templates for use in open source and open development projects

License:Apache License 2.0