Maximizing Benefits for Open Source Projects on GitHub or Any Other Platform.

[yogeshu]

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Hello, I am developing a new open-source project called Inteview Guide and am interested in exploring the benefits of GitHub to projects like mine. Could someone guide me on the best practices and GitHub-specific features that could help enhance my project's impact and reach? Specifically, I am interested in features related to CI/CD, community engagement, and project sponsorship. Thank you!

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[ItsRaelx]

I can't say much about sponsorships, but I've been using CI/CD features on GitHub for quite a while.

When it comes to automation in GitHub, the main feature is GitHub Actions. You can interact with it by creating .yml files in the .github/workflows/ directory inside your repository.

Here's an example of what it looks like:

name: GitHub Actions Demo
run-name: ${{ github.actor }} is testing out GitHub Actions 🚀
on: [push]
jobs:
  Explore-GitHub-Actions:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - run: echo "🎉 The job was automatically triggered by a ${{ github.event_name }} event."
      - run: echo "🐧 This job is now running on a ${{ runner.os }} server hosted by GitHub!"
      - run: echo "🔎 The name of your branch is ${{ github.ref }} and your repository is ${{ github.repository }}."
      - name: Check out repository code
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - run: echo "💡 The ${{ github.repository }} repository has been cloned to the runner."
      - run: echo "🖥️ The workflow is now ready to test your code on the runner."
      - name: List files in the repository
        run: 
|          ls ${{ github.workspace }}
      - run: echo "🍏 This job's status is ${{ job.status }}."

This is an example from the Quickstart guide from GitHub itself.

Basically, it spins up a virtual machine where you can easily pull your code (with automatic authentication), run some commands on it like building your project, push changes back to the repo, run tests, and much more.

There are also many pre-built modules for GitHub Actions that already automate many tasks, so you don't have to write automations for them by hand.

(It isn't fully free but it has such generous free tier that you probably never exceed it.)