On 2/10/15 9:16 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
I've been with the open source community for about two decades, and my observation is that the thriving ones tend to be the ones where people contribute because they want to, rather than because they were told to. Of course, that does not preclude leadership and direction -- in fact, the most successful projects tend to have people in charge with strong leadership skills, but said leadership tends to work best when they inspire people to follow them, rather than laying down the law and saying you must work on X, Y, Z, otherwise you're not helping The Cause. The successful projects also tend to be those where contributions of any kind are welcomed, no matter how trivial they may seem to be.
Totally. We're trying to do more of that going forward. -- Andrei
