The advice about badges reads like parody to me. I only really care if the project has CI. The Zoid repo has way too many!<p>I focus on making sure the mobile view of the github page has a compelling summary of the state of the project “above the fold”:<p>- purpose and goal<p>- programming language<p>- software type: library, framework, language, CLI, server, etc<p>- maturity: age, production-readiness, prominent users, corporate backing<p>Logo is a nice-to-have.
Wow, the first readme linked is horribly ugly and provides no context above the fold. It looks like the zodiac killer’s rear bumper.<p><a href="https://github.com/zold-io/zold" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/zold-io/zold</a>
> Changelog [...] is something from Pre-GitHub time. I would recommend you rely on the "releases" tab<p>> GitHub has a special tab in each repository, which is called “contributors.” There is absolutely no reason to reproduce the list in the README file.<p>Why would you tie yourself to github like that?