Yes, if you feel you have to make it "release ready" then you'll never publish it. I'm pretty sure a good majority of the code is never released because the

Yes, if you feel you have to make it "release ready" then you'll never publish it. I'm pretty sure a good majority of the code is never released because the original author is ashamed of it, but they shouldn't be. Everybody is in the same boat. The only thing I would add is a description of the build environment and an example of how to use it.