Add publiccode.yml

[bzg]

I believe umap past developments have been funded by public money from the French administration: please correct me if I'm wrong or if this is an oversimplification.

publiccode.yml is a standard for describing software projects, particularily suitable for Free Software backed by public money.

I suggest adding a publiccode.yml at the root of umap's repository so that we can include umap in https://code.gouv.fr/fr/awesome/, a shortlist of "Awesome" open source project by the French administration. Of course, a project can be mostly funded by public money while having a governance and a roadmap that does not depend on French administration: if this is the case for umap, then the "Awesome code.gouv.fr" shortlist is not relevant.

Also, I suggest adding more information on how to contribute to the project and its governance - this could help attract more contributors.

Let me know how I can help with these suggestions!

[davidbgk]

@bzg where is the specification for publiccode.yml?

[bzg]

Here : https://yml.publiccode.tools/schema.core.html

[bzg]

You can see an example here: https://github.com/codegouvfr/react-dsfr/blob/main/publiccode.yml