What are some good-practices to get an open-source project to have contributors? [closed]

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I am involved in a project which is meant to eventually become open-source开发者_JAVA技巧 and have a code contributor community. Is there any "right" way of doing this and what should/can I expect?

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There's a pretty good book on this topic, Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel, which is available for free online or in dead tree form if you prefer to read it that way. It would be hard to expand much on it in a single answer. Every project will, of course, be different, so I'd recommend reading that book, and then asking more specific questions about your particular project; answers will depend on the language and platform you use, how active an open source community there already is in your area, what your business model is, and many other factors.

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I would recommand using Github or Google Project Hosting (subversion/mercurial), and of course use social media network to promote the project helps too.

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You can start something like this - http://wxwidgets.org/develop/