The Laravel News site has kicked off a series of posts sharing some of the experiences from Joe Dixon about the creation and maintenance of a Laravel translation package.

In this multi-part series, we’ll be documenting the process of building and maintaining an open-source package for Laravel. We will cover everything from bootstrapping the package to dealing with your first issues and pull requests and as much as we possibly can in between.

In this first part of the series he goes over some of the basics:

• why they're building the tool
• what they're planning on creating
• how they're expecting it to be used

There's a bit of background about the tools they're planning on using and pseudo-code of how it will work.