Hi all

I am looking to put together and release a package boilerplate that can be used for package development and would like to ask you all for your views and opinions.

I know that Lee Kelleher put something together a while back at https://github.com/leekelleher/umbraco-package-boilerplate but that is no longer maintained.

My vision for the boilerplate is similar to the above, to provide best practices in terms of structure, build, deployment and such when writing open source Umbraco packages.

Here are my thoughts for this boilerplate:

• Common and recommended project structure, namely three key folders; build, docs and src.
• An example appveyor.yml configuration file, with appveyor highly recommended for build and deployment to Nuget considering it is free for open source projects.
• Simply clone the boilerplate repo and build, with an Umbraco website all ready to go and be tested on.
• Have a way to test different Umbraco versions locally within the same solution? I am thinking possibly generated project files for various version numbers?

So now comes the big question for you all, what do you consider best practice in terms of project structure, build and deployment?

Thanks in advance for your input.