Automating NuGet deployment with AppVeyor

In the past, I’ve blogged about using AppVeyor for Continuous Integration (CI), but up to now, I’ve been manually uploading NuGet packages to NuGet.org. In this post – the 10th in the ConTabs series – I explain the steps I took to automate the packaging and deployment of ConTabs to NuGet.org. Or, in other words, how I’m using AppVeyor for my Continuous Deployment.

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Attracting contributors to ConTabs

Open source projects need contributors to stay healthy and develop. In this post, I want to discuss the methods I’ve tried (so far) to attract contributors to my open source project (ConTabs). I’ll describe what I’ve done, summarise what little data I have, and reflect on what it might tell us about open source contributors. And, in the middle of all that, I’ll indulge in a quick digression on the subject of project hygiene.

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