I recently looked at the new SolarPosition.jl package and was impressed by the GH Actions that helped improve its quality. This got me wondering if there’s a maintained, opinionated, and complete list of quality-improvement tools and practices for Julia packages. By “tools and practices” I mean thi…

Most of the actions used in SolarPosition.jl come from BestieTemplate.jl, which I used to generate the project. If you find / create other useful actions, perhaps they can be added to BestieTemplate. The advantage of that is that the actions are part of a real project so they are tested and kept up …

A curated list of GH actions that improve the quality of your package

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gdalle December 10, 2025, 1:19pm 8

They would definitely need some updating given the evolutions of the ecosystem and the rise of BestieTemplate.jl. @langestefan and others are more than welcome to pitch in!

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A curated list of GH actions that improve the quality of your package

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