# Beyond README
2018.03.23/11:00
... written by lambda
I'm interested in organizing i.e. keeping my $FUDGE together
while working. For me, this is a crucial task, because
while working, I'm in a deep-trance and thus rather
concentrated and unflexible. Sometimes I loose completely
track of time and space.
I often choose one task and stay on track 'til it is
finished. If someone would hire me to build a train system,
it would very probably become a proverbial monorail...
literally. It would have only one single track.
It would be very cost efficient, very clear, very easy to
maintain and to copy, and very reliable for shipping only
one special product, like, i.e. screws or tea leaves... or
monorails.
Nevertheless I need to have some pattern to return to,
because, in the end, even the need to work on a feature
branch B could become a nuisance while working on banch A.
So I turned to note taking and the use of commonplace file
names for quick orientation and as a point of reference for
other as well. Nothing new. This is as it should be.
The following is my small list of commonplace file names
beyond the proverbial README, that helped me.
While working on a project, I tend to put them all in a
directory called 'README.d/' and browse it using lynx(1).
## Common Filenames
README Content description, contact information.
BUGS List of bugs.
CREDITS List of contributors.
LICENSE The project's license.
TODO Stuff to do.
UPGRADING How to upgrade.
HACK Guidelines for code modifications.