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Sorceforge Poll: What is the most important factor for success for an open source project?

Published
2011-03-18 07:43
Written by
JoeMurray

Sorceforge recently conducted an unscientific twtpoll that yielded interested results. The top four factors in the success of an open source project were:

  1. Good quality code
  2. Developer documentation
  3. interactive community of end users
  4. End user documentation

I think CiviCRM is doing well and continuing to improve on all fronts. For more details, see http://twtpoll.com/r/xrlctl

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Comments

The problem being who is a developer, and who is an end user?  And Drupal has this same problem too.  Is a developer someone who develops CiviCRM core, or someone who uses the APIs?  If the former, there is almost no documentation.  The API documentation on the other hand, especially v3, is getting pretty good.