This project is publicly licensed and will have a public home project on https://www.gitlab.com/tychosoft. This will an issue tracker where people can submit public bug reports, a wiki for hosting project documentation, and a public git repo.
Given that I may be without connectivity at times, other sites I have used for hosting have been down or interfered with at times, and overall lack of any public participation, the public git repo is really more a publication point and stable survivable public location I will use for packaging.
Gitlab is used for public ci integration. Since the most common deployment platform I use is Alpine, it defaults to this. This also minimizes ci processing overhead.
There are only a few types of ci jobs I may use. One is to evaluate merge requests, and if this is broken hopefully whomever submits a merge request can fix it. The other I may add is for public things that need to be done for a new tagged release.
I am striving to make all project documentation viewable thru each projects wiki pages. I also hope to consolidate any non-graphical Wiki documentation back into the distribution tarball as well.
The support ticket system can be used for bug requests, discussion items, or any kind of inquiry at all. It's contents are fully public. It also is entirely separate from my internal development ticketing.
Patches may be submitted and attached to an issue in the issue tracker or sent by email. They should be provided in unified diffs. All code contributions must be held in copyright under Tycho Softworks for now, which may require a copyright assignment form. This is a new requirement since all current code already is exclusively copyrighted by Tycho Softworks as it had only been worked on by me alone, but this may change if there is active participation.
Be excellent to each other.
Don't be the asshole.