Your main goal as a creator of an open-source project is to prepare it for the users and contributors who will come after you. You will not stay with your project forever. You may not even stay with is for a few years. You don't want the project to die, do you? Just make it look attractive for future users and it will live forever.
The video is here: https://youtu.be/kV5j4Uysivo
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