Documenting barriers to entry into free software projects

Dave Neary has announced a draft version of a document on community barriers to entry [PDF]; the idea is to help projects identify and fix problems which keep their communities from growing. "In many corporate projects, the most damaging dynamic is when a decision gets made by someone not on the developer mailing list, and is thus completely unaccountable to the community for the decision. It is damaging for your community, who feels ignored. In the case where these decisions are unpopular, it is damaging for the morale of your developers, who must defend strategic changes in the product they may not agree with."

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