Jeff Prickett wrote:
>
> One reason calendar died is because, there is no community around it. It
> was just me contributing to jetspeed. One of my first goals as a
> developer with calendar this time is to get more people involved. It is
> not that easy.

+1

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


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