Maintainers guide

Monitor links It may seem obvious, but maintaining links working across every kind of web page of your project is crucial for ensuring your visitors and potential users have a good experience when learning. Broken links can lead to frustration and may discourage users, making them leave sooner than expected. Implement scripts to regularly check the status of links helps to promptly identify any that are breaking. Put those scripts in CIs....

July 28, 2024

gbdev updates - November 2020

About gbdev “gbdev” is the home of the Game Boy development scene. A community of retro-hardware enthusiasts. Maintaning and developing many projects, including RGBDS, the de-facto standard development toolkit, curated collections of resources, documentation efforts, digital preservation and an open archive of homebrews. Follow the Game Boy Development (gbdev) initiative on Twitter, join us on Discord or check our website at gbdev.io. I serve as community leader and directly mantain some of the projects under the gbdev umbrella....

November 7, 2020

Open Source netiquette and practises

Reporting an Issue, quick checklist: provide an example to reproduce the problem in isolation. This should include no private code. The example should be self-runnable. If a snippet is too small, create a repository. unless the problem is visual, do not include screenshots. They are not helpful. please be patient. You are probably frustrated by your problem - the maintainers are likely not aware of your workflow. be grateful for any help you are getting and follow through....

February 1, 2020