Template for starting community authored OSS repos

[gabekneisley]

As consensus builds on clear issue labeling, what is a great way to make it easy for maintainers to implement findable labeling systems? Perhaps a clone-able starter repo or a simple GitHub app that pre-stocks labels and maybe wiki stubs, contributors.md, a license and versioning.

[afeld]

Forking/cloning a repository doesn't bring the labels with, but creating guidelines or a little app that OAuths in and does it for you would be cool. Hopefully the discussions in this repository will help come up with some guidelines.

[tute]

We recently started a blueprint repository: https://github.com/thoughtbot/templates. The labels, while we don't have a GitHub app, could be suggestions in a README or INSTRUCTIONS of the meta-repo.

[andrew]

@afeld that sounds like a great idea, I'd definitely use something like that.