On Samstag, 12. Februar 2011 at 17:55, David Gerard wrote:
> How to grow your contributor community (and how to decimate it):
> 
> http://www.codesimplicity.com/post/open-source-community-simplified/
> 

and imo, wikimedia fails at a lot of these points:

*Quote: "Respond to contributions immediately."
This is what I think bugs me the most. There are heaps of bugs which have had 
patches attached for month or years. For newcomers, who maybe spent a lot of 
time on these, it's just rude to neither commit them nor explain why they can't 
be committed immidiately.

*Create and document communication channels.
This has been talked about before, and maybe it did indeed get it little better.

Leo 
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