On 28/09/18 11:27, kellen sunderland wrote:
I'd love to see some more sustained contribution from other open source communities to help us out in this area
That's not exactly the model I have seen to work. What I have seen works really well at other projects is pulling users in as committers in a scratch your own itch kind of way. For that to work you need to make it clear what contributions you need, you need to make time to coach people to become developers, you need to make your users accustomed to the way you work as early as possible. It also helps to ask users for contributions and offer mentoring help from your side along the way.
I know that this is tedious work that needs a lot of motivating people, mentoring people, explaining to people, however it makes for a sustainable community of people that do the work out of self interest.
http://blog.isabel-drost.de/posts/open-development-and-inner-source-for-fun-and-profit.html Isabel
