I would love to see this sort of thing facilitated. Get someone on board who is familiar with something like GitLab CI/CD and at least a couple popular language

I would love to see this sort of thing facilitated. Get someone on board who is familiar with something like GitLab CI/CD and at least a couple popular languages, and let them set up and maintain template repos with all the good stuff: in-repo configuration (not snowflake CI systems like Jenkins), tests, idiomatic project structure, commit hooks for linting/formatting, simple Markdown documentation, maybe even some popular IDE configuration. Anyone used to learning by example will just need to know about the readme to get a head start.