Experience with the open-source community

Question

GitHub

Please share if anyone has any experience of bringing in the open-source community for the purposes of their project.
That is, some separate part of the system is laid out in the repository: the kernel, some specific functionality, or some self-written tool constantly used in the development process, and declared freely distributed under a particular license.
If the code is useful, then the community shows interest in it and constantly finishes it.
In this way, everyone benefits, plus there are significant savings in development costs.

Answer 1

Sometimes it's enough to "post an announcement ". :-)

Answer 2

I have no such experience, but I have experience of participation from the community. To do this, you need to post something very interesting, high-quality and innovative. For example, Ruby On Rails has become such a project. And spreading something boring and uninteresting to the general public does not make sense.

Answer 3

In our experience of organizing free software development communities , there are no savings in development costs

Answer 4

What do you want to see as an answer to this question? Yes, I have. We also have it specifically, there are a lot of examples on the github. Just take github.com/thoughtbot . In general, most of the open-source projects are either created within the framework of companies, or are eventually supported by them. In general, the question is rhetorical - just look around.
It, the question, should be reduced to: “I have a project X. I want to make it available to the community. What can I do to make it interesting for people and they help me with its development? That's when you can answer it.