On Tuesday, 10 February 2015 at 15:48:44 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Yeah, welcome to the open source community. People work on what
they
*want* to work on, not what somebody else tells them they
should work
on. :-)
The corollary is, if you want people to work on X, you should
make X
attractive enough that people *want* to work on it. Inspiration
tends to
work a lot better than command in a volunteer project.
I want to note that I am not totally against more controlled
contributions - but that is totally different type of
collaboration that implies much more formal process, as well as
willingness to actually manage such team. There is a big mindset
gap between "I did those things I needed and can share them" and
"I am going to work on things you consider important", those are
not interchangeable.
