In your opinion, what are the key factors in nurturing a developer community?
-- Ceki > It is very easy to monday-morning quaterback and second guess the > decisions that were made in the distant past with perfect 20-20 > hindsight. Some might even find it amusing to single out some of the > participants and try to act as the judge, jury, and executioner of > that person's reputation in the court of public opinion. > > But doing any of this is not terribly constructive. > > Building a community is hard work. It doesn't happen according to a > time schedule. The code base that a community choses to form around > may have more to do with timing, the demeaner of the participants, > better alternatives not being very well publicized, or even dumb luck > rather than technical merit. > > But in the long run, the code base with the strongest community > generally emerges as the one with the most viability. And in the > process will tend to gather those important secondary characteristics > that we all value: quality, robustness, and a large user base. > > - Sam Ruby -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
