On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Sebastian Bauer <ad...@ugame.net.pl> wrote: > > Hello, i want to release some code, but i have one problem: > > how impel peoples to send me back patches? > > Any suggestions are welcome :)
First, participate in the dark arts until to ascend to the level of minor god. Then, use your newfound ability to fling lightning bolts at the mortals to compel people to contribute patches. You will probably need to make an example of a few developers before the rest catch on; please try to avoid the important people (Linus, Guido, Malcolm etc). The remaining survivors shall call you Sebastian, God of Keeping Open Source Developers Honest. Seriously - Aint no such thing. If you're open sourcing code, you can _hope_ that people contribute back, but no license terms in the world will _compel_ them to do so. All you can do is work on developing a community so that it is obvious that there is a benefit to contributing code back to you. This means setting up a community where end users feel welcome and able to contribute, and feel ownership of the code themselves so that they are encouraged to keep coming back to the community and helping the project to grow. Yours Russ Magee %-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
