Now that you have a readme, a licence, and a code of conduct, you’re open for business! It's time to give some thought to how to welcome the new users that have issues with your project, or potential contributors who open pull requests.
GitHub and GitLab have us covered with issue and pull-request templates (named description templates on GitLab). I recommend you take the time to add those to your repository. They can offer the following benefits:
- Help triage issues faster
- Help users troubleshoot their implementations first
- Help you gather more information as you ask for it (such as a version number)
- Enforce a proper description when opening pull requests
This is perhaps one of the most important parts to iterate on as your project grows.