An ever growing user-base across a wider range of projects and skill-sets that cannot be centrally accomodated necessitates rescoping of the cookiecutter.

• It should have a leaner core that is:

  • Easier to maintain
  • Easier for users to understand and extend to their own ends
  • Relies on fewer dependencies
  • Less prone to breakages, e.g. due to it's dependencies (which are user-managed and we cannot pin) making breaking changes

• It should provide scripts/instructions - "recipes" - to setup functionality that is either:

  • Not suitable in every situation
  • Not generically configurable for every situation
  • Too complex to be a Cookiecutter default
  • We do not have a good standard approach for yet

• Documentation should be split into

  1. Requirements - you MUST do this
  2. Recommendations - you are highly encouraged to do this