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Making an Open Source Application More Successful?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the recipes-for-added-success dept.

morphex asks: "I've written an application for information and task management called the Issue Dealer that has hundreds of users, many of them very satisfied with how it works. However, new user growth has been slow, and there's not much of a community surrounding it. What can I do to encourage wider use of the application, and what can I do to get more developers interested in development and bugfixing? In short, what's missing in this picture to make it an Open Source success story?"

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  1. Do as you have just done. by suso · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well, it does help to post a question about it to "ask slashdot". I did the same thing 3 years ago with my num-utils programs. After that, I definately saw increased usage and it was added to a few Linux distributions. If you're lucky, the same will happen to you.

  2. version number by ianturton · · Score: 5, Interesting
    If you bump your version number to 1.0 you may well see take up increase. We certainly saw that with GeoTools Version 1 never got beyond 0.96 beta. When wee restarted with version 2 we decided to bump the version number regularly and are now at 2.2.0 and 2.3.x. Usage certainly went up

    Ian