Top tips for a successful open source project
Damien Katz, whose Apache CouchDB recently hit 1.0, provides some excellent tips on creating a successful open source project in his blog Getting your open source project to 1.0.
Drawn from five years’ experience, the tips include general advice interwoven with examples from the project. He begins with the fundamental question, Why?, explaining that a successful project needs a reason for being – a clear idea of what problem it solves – and you need to figure this out and explain it.
Almost as important as knowing what you are is knowing what you’re not: ‘Stating clearly what your project isn’t trying to do or be helps make it much easier to explain what you can’t implement or change …. and to focus on what you actually are.’
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