Create a GitHub Repository

Terminology

See Naming Conventions.

Instructions for members of the Platform Team

Before doing anything, you must log in to GitHub using an account that has administrative privileges.

First decide which GitHub organisation to put the repository in

• cessda - use for public repositories and repositories shared within the CESSDA Consortium (the vast majority of repositories are public, but deployment repositories are not)
• CESSDA-MO - use for private repositories that are not shared within the CESSDA Consortium (relating to things only the MO-IT teams needs to deal with)

Clone the template

CESSDA code repository template (cessda/cessda.code-repo.template - private)

Edit the boilerplate files

• CHANGELOG.md
• CITATION.cif
• CONTRIBUTORS.md
• README.md