If you contribute to any open source project, you quickly learn code is only a small (yet important) part of the effort. Other stuff that are splitted: - atte

If you contribute to any open source project, you quickly learn code is only a small (yet important) part of the effort. Other stuff that are splitted: - attention; - visibility; - pull requests; - documentation edits; - bug reports; - installs (and hence testing on the field); - compatibility layers; - compatible tooling; - 3rd party tutorials, snippets and examples; - help from integrators; Now if you don't have any very good alternatives, it's good : you want to steal that from them. But when you DO have good existing projects, then those are the bread and butter of their success. Now I know it's way harder to contribute to something than roll you own. I know that's it's also more fun to roll your own. And there is the ego at play as well. I understand all that, and I respect Kenneth as a professional. But I don't think it's a good call on his part here. It is espacially true for him, because he now have such a good rep in the Python community that everything he does get under the spotlight.