Chapter 23. Open Source Community, Simplified
Growing and maintaining an open-source community depends essentially on three things:
- Getting people interested in contributing
- Removing the barriers to entering the project and contributing
- Retaining contributors so that they keep contributing
If you can get people interested, then have them actually contribute, and then have them stick around, you have a community. Otherwise, you don't.
If you are just starting a project or need to improve the community of an existing project, you should address these points in reverse order. If you get people interested in a project before you do the later two steps, then people won't be able to enter and won't stick around when they do enter. You won't actually expand ...
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