Regardless of your motivations for packaging your software, chances are good that you plan to share the work in at least one context outside your immediate day-to-day work. Whoever you share the code with is likely to find bugs or desire new features. As the requirements of your project shift and grow, your capacity shrinks surprisingly quickly. You need practices that maximize productivity and commodify contribution to the project, allowing you to take on help from anyone and everyone willing to give it.
This part brings your packaging project into collaborative mode. You’ll enhance your pipeline to include automated checks whenever you or your team members introduce changes to the code, provide useful documentation so the team and your users can understand the project, and keep your project from going stale with regular updates to dependencies and syntax.