No instructions on how to build the project
I encountered a bug while playing on Ubuntu 20.04. I thought I would check out and build the latest source code to see if it had been fixed. Doing so proved difficult as there are no instructions on how to build the project. I tried to figure it out by reading CI and build scripts, but gave up, due to not having the correct version of a certain dependency. I found in the release logs that the bug had been fixed, so wasn't motivated to track down the correct version of that dependency.
I don't think I've ever come across another open source project without clear build instructions. Some projects have it directly in the README
, whereas others have it in a separate file, e.g. INSTALL
. I don't see any good reason for such instructions to be omitted from this project and having to figure out how to build the project seems like an unnecessary barrier for new/potential contributors.