Comments on: Ten Ways to Destroy Your Community http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/05/07/ten-ways-to-destroy-your-community A permanent record for what's interesting today - this is my live journal Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:49:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Mark Atwood http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/05/07/ten-ways-to-destroy-your-community#comment-133744 Mark Atwood Thu, 08 May 2008 19:16:21 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/?p=813#comment-133744 Reading that "how to destroy your community" and checking it against MySQL AB's past, its amazing we survived at all! Reading that “how to destroy your community” and checking it against MySQL AB’s past, its amazing we survived at all!

]]> By: William Newton http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/05/07/ten-ways-to-destroy-your-community#comment-133681 William Newton Wed, 07 May 2008 19:46:28 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/?p=813#comment-133681 I have one that I would add to the list: bizarre version numbers/ symbols. give the builds bizarre numbers and change them frequently. Make it difficult for them to keep up. Something like Pi versioning first version is 3.14 second 1.41 third 4.15 ect... And occasionally, make a change to a previous build and re release it as the same build number. I have one that I would add to the list: bizarre version numbers/ symbols.
give the builds bizarre numbers and change them frequently. Make it difficult for them to keep up.
Something like Pi versioning
first version is 3.14
second 1.41
third 4.15
ect…
And occasionally, make a change to a previous build and re release it as the same build number.

]]> By: Adam Monsen http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/05/07/ten-ways-to-destroy-your-community#comment-133679 Adam Monsen Wed, 07 May 2008 18:57:54 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/?p=813#comment-133679 Awesome notes, thank you! Josh's advice is quite useful. Syncs up precisely with guidelines presented in /Producing Open Source Software/ by Karl Fogel. Awesome notes, thank you! Josh’s advice is quite useful. Syncs up precisely with guidelines presented in /Producing Open Source Software/ by Karl Fogel.

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