I'm not sure I would follow all this advice. As the maintainer of GitX, I have difficulty in keeping some kind of community running. One of the things that I'm

I'm not sure I would follow all this advice. As the maintainer of GitX, I have difficulty in keeping some kind of community running. One of the things that I'm definitely _not_ going to do is add more ways of communication (A newbie forum, irc channel, etc). As it is now, communication between people is already somewhat difficult. My main way to communicate is the mailing list, which is quiet enough to post everything you want to. However, I also have a bugtracker on lighthouse where some people file a bug, to be left there forever. Then some people use the commenting system on github, which also get ignored mostly. Some people send me a pull request through github, which means it just sits in my mailbox without alerting others who might want to review it. Then there are folks who email me privately. I try to answer everything, but often have to repeat stuff because it's in private mail. Then some folks report a bug on the mailing list, or on the bug tracker, or privately, and I have to figure out what went where. Then there are also duplicate bug reports that I have to track down, and close one of them. There are also some cases of multiple people contributing a patch for the same issue. There are enough ways to communicate now, and I'm thinking of closing some of those options. I'd like to disable messages in github, but that's not possible. I'm probably going to set an auto-responder to pull requests, asking folks to send mails to mailing list. I might make the bugtracker private, and ask everybody to post to the mailing list. In short, I don't think it's the lack of communication options, but more that the few folks that do work on a small project are spread across too many different communication systems.