This is a base version of the github/cookiecutter template.

All it does it create an empty folder with readme, changelog, licence, and an empty version of testing and publishing workflows.

This is based on the general approach of simonw/python-lib, but with a different default structure.

A new repository based on this template can be created in Github or through cookiecutter.

The templating process can be run entirely in GitHub to create a new repository.

Start here: https://github.com/ajparsons/base-auto-template/generate

Add a one-line description of your repository, then click "Create repository from template".

This repo can also be used to set up a template offline using cookiecutter. To start the processs:

python -m cookiecutter https://github.com/ajparsons/base-auto-template/

If you want to modify or extend this approach - the self-bootstrapping behaviour will only happen when a repo does not end in '-auto-template'. If you clone this repo, into a different user or org space, it will not self-bootstrap because the name is the same.

If you wanted to extend this into a basic django template - you might fork or clone the repo and call it 'django-auto-template'. This will not self-bootstrap, but new projects created from that template would.

This project defines several meta tests in tests/ that will:

• Attempt to provision a template with basic variables.

This requires the packages listed in requirements.dev.txt to be installed.