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Yes. The amount of projects that don't just run is outstanding. Luckily docker container projects are inherently better at this is in terms of dependencies, but there are still often weird assumptions or medical incantations to get them during.

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This is an underrated comment. If your project can run in Docker, providing a Dockerfile in addition to the README is incredibly valuable.

I agree. I have provided Dockerfiles in work projects, and it was successful. However, I found it difficult to run tasks using just the Dockerfile. The containers became too large. And I had to write too long arguments for volume mounts and environment variables. In the end, I had to include the steps for starting and running the containers in the README.

(I am deeply concerned about this issue. So I implemented a little tool called Lask, and it tried to solve this kind problems. https://github.com/lask-task-runner/lask )

I forgot to mention it but a docker compose is even better to mitigate incantations. It seems every project I use that has a docker file also has some custom script around it that boils down to mounts and variables

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