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Excerpts from Jeremy Stanley's message of 2018-04-23 17:02:07 +0000:
> On 2018-04-23 12:02:14 -0400 (-0400), Zane Bitter wrote:
> [...]
> > The main thing I will be looking out for in those cases is that
> > the project followed the Four Opens *from the beginning*. Projects
> > that start from a code dump are much less likely to attract other
> > contributors in my view. Open Source is not a verb.
> [...]
> 
> Not to add more noise, but I wanted to mention that I _really_ like
> this point in particular. We've definitely seen plenty of
> applications for inclusion which started out as an
> internally-developed tool behind closed doors somewhere. When they
> get "flung over the wall" to the community they tend to flounder in
> their attempts to gain traction as properly open projects in their
> own right. I don't think we do a good enough job at highlighting
> this risk (yet), and will remember to point it out more often when I
> spot it in the future. Thanks!

I hope that no one considers any of this "noise," so thank you for
highlighting that point.

Doug