TurboGears community
The TurboGears community is amazing. It’s not every project where the commiters are so concerned about catching and fixing bugs that you hear things like this:
If you’ll email me your project (ZIP or tar.gz is fine) I’ll take a look.
Jeff, Kevin, Ronald, David, and the rest of the TurboGears team are building a great community. And I’m convinced that community building is one of the three most important pieces to creating a successful open source based development project.
Oh, the other two pieces are:
- creating a project which is genuinely useful
- help your users learn to do something they think is cool
For Open Source projects both building a quality product, and teaching your users, are significantly amplified by community involvement. Community members build cool things, extend the base, and they create the best fellow-learners/teachers.
And this is not just an academic exercise — open source leaders and projects have lost their technical advantage because their leaders were not able to build and maintain strong positive communities. At the moment Arch, and it’s successor TLA, provide a prime example, especially when contrasted with subversion and Bazzar-NG.
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