goss

Aside from Google Analytics are there any other benefits to having a project webpage for an open source project? Are there any guides or statistics on the impact of having a webpage vs just a github repo? I'm artistically challenged, so I prefer to just have a README.md, but wondering if I'm missing out by not doing so? I'm currently at ~450 stars with just readme and an asciicast gif: https://github.com/aelsabbahy/goss However, I noticed other open source projects in this same category have webpages.

I like to think to myself "If I had to verify this server manually what would I check?" and write automated tests for those. Usually, it's a few high level/important checks for critical services, ports, packages, and users. For configuration files I check for one setting and if it's there assume the rest are correct. Ultimately, it's mostly going by gut and balancing level of effort in maintaining a test vs increased level of confidence in the deployment from having said test. Some tools out there: * https://github.com/aelsabbahy/goss - YAML, simple, self-contained binary, extremely fast. * https://github.com/indusbox/goss-ansible - Ansible module for goss, never used this, but you might find it useful * http://serverspec.org/ - Ruby, most popular infra testing tool * https://github.com/chef/inspec - Ruby, looks like an improved serversp