That book looks excellent - perhaps if all large open source projects included something similar, they'd get more contributors? I suspect that jumping into code

That book looks excellent - perhaps if all large open source projects included something similar, they'd get more contributors? I suspect that jumping into code with no overview of it's structure is going to be slower than if you have a clear framework to hang things on, which might explain the reluctance. Their follow up book also looks good: http://www.aosabook.org/en/makingsoftware.html http://www.aosabook.org/en/makingsoftware.html