Basic stuff around writing programs

To write a computer program, you need to provide a bunch of other guff that has little to do with the program you are writing.

• Licence
• README
• Build system (ideally an 'hermetic' build system that insulates your build configuration from the surrounding environment)
• Test runner
• Documentation!
  • Something to build docs
  • Something to publish docs
  • API docs
  • Long-form documentation (e.g. how to, design)
  • Change log
• Release process
• Code review system
• Version control
• Web site
• Discussion forum
  • IRC?
  • Mailing list?
• Version numbering
• Coding standards
• Linter to support coding standards
• Continuous integration (ideally something that prevents merging patches that break tests)