When do we want to publicize the repo?

[Advay17]

Basically title, and also additionally if we want to do anything alongside just making it public(like a ChiefDelphi post or smth)

[VMFortress]

Are any of the previous year codebases public?

I'm definitely a big proponent of openness with code but it's not something I'd force upon you all.

If you do want to go through with it, I'd recommend some basic house cleaning (clean up extraneous prints and such) and make a nice README to show off the repo. That said, you're free to make it public whenever you believe it's ready or just never at all.

[Advay17]

Ik 2024's is, I don't remember for the previous ones. Given that we would want to do housecleaning, do we want to set this up as a milestone with issues like #40, #72, #76, etc. as goals?

[VMFortress]

That sounds like a really good use of milestones actually!

[Advay17]

I added the milestone. I will keep the discussion open for a bit more in case anyone else wants to pitch in their own two cents, but it seems like the milestone would be the best indicator of when to publish.

[VMFortress]

Something that could be considered (for this release and in the future): To publicize their code, Mechanical Advantage (6328) has a separate public repo that just is daily copies of the full code over to it without the git history.

This obfuscates the development history and contributors while still publicizing code. If students would prefer this for privacy or other reasons, this could be considered.