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• pheski
  
  

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  Posted: Apr 19, 2011 - 02:01 PM

  ...doesn't get mentioned often enough.
  
  Once again, faced with a problem beyond my skill I asked for help and got a couple suggestions in less than 24 hours, which partially resolved the problem and got me moving in the right direction to a (non-elegant) solution that works.
  
  The Zikula product is great. The community remains the biggest asset, in my opinion.
  
  Here is a very nice blog post summarizing a talk about how the community is the most important feature of a product.
  
  Thanks.
  
  Peter
  
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• espaan
  
  

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  Posted: Apr 19, 2011 - 07:34 PM

  Nice.
  
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• slam
  
  

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  Posted: Apr 20, 2011 - 06:39 AM

  CCC - code, co-operation and community are the important parts of FOSS projects. However, the mix/balance of openess for newcomers, tolerance of misbehaviour, restricted access to certain parts of the project, legal protection for the core developers, etc. is not an easy game. If you look inside really successful projects, you will see that this mix can vary a lot.
  And after all, it starts with good and useful code - so, sorry to say: The most important part of a successful FOSS project are still the developers.
  Greetings,
  Chris
  
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• pheski
  
  

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  Posted: Apr 20, 2011 - 07:32 AM

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  The most important part of a successful FOSS project are still the developers.

  
  
  I agree, but I don't think our statements conflict. It may be semantic silliness. A FOSS project requires good good to be successful and durable, but is unlikely to be able to create and maintain good code without a community of coders. I didn't read her comments as meaning that an inclusive or touchy-feely community would generate good code, just that a strong and diverse community was much more likely to generate good code than a small homogenous community. And the community definitely needs to be anchored by enthusiastic expert coders.
  
  
  
  
  Peter
  
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• drak
  
  

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  Posted: Apr 20, 2011 - 07:53 AM

  I think I covered much of this in http://blog.zikula.org/Blog/Anatomy-of-Open-Source-Projects.76.html
  
  Regards,
  
  Drak
  
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• pheski
  
  

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  Posted: Apr 20, 2011 - 08:00 AM

  Yup.
  
  Peter
  
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