Coder Catchup

Why: Onboarding new developers Remembering how to continue work on the project yourself What to include: Who has contributed, their contact details, etc What dependencies the project has, e.g. imagemagick, postgres, etc How to get the project bootstrapped and ready for development locally How to deploy the project into production Running tests Third party services How to contribute/features (this probably should belong in a different file) Build status etc Overview of the project, what is trying to achieve, etc. How to get started? Use a service such as http://readme.io/ Check out what some large OSS projects you use do Always think that someone else will have to use and setup your project (even yourself much much later on) https://github.com/pixelstack/essential-readme-template Summary Good readme docs save your sanity Always think like someone else will have to take over or contribute to the project It does not have to be perfect, it can be updated