Useful over performative
Repositories should help someone install, operate, or extend a system — not exist only as social proof.
Open source
Open source is part of the engineering practice when it helps operators and does not invent a community that is not being maintained. Public work lives on GitHub.
Standard
Repositories should help someone install, operate, or extend a system — not exist only as social proof.
README, constraints, and failure modes matter. If operators cannot run it without private tribal knowledge, it is not ready to publish.
Client-confidential work stays private. Public repos do not invent stars, download counts, or maintainer capacity that is not real.
Practice
Next step
Describe the system and constraints. Public extracts only happen when they do not expose client-confidential detail.