contribution

What is the best method to gain users and contributors for my own open source projects?

There are two questions to this: How can I best "spread the word" about my projects to interested users? How can I best "spread the word" to like-minded developers? I know this sounds easy, but it really isn't. I've participated in official mailing list discussions, establishing a presence on IRC, wrote articles for magazines, hoste...

How to set initial state of an Eclipse action contribution

What I'm trying to achieve is to contribute an action to the IProject pop up menu. The action is defined like this in my plugin.xml: <extension point="org.eclipse.ui.popupMenus"> <objectContribution adaptable="true" objectClass="org.eclipse.core.resources.IProject" nameFilter="*" ...

Do I need a Contribution Agreement?

Do I need a Contribution Agreement for my BSD licensed project? Does it protect me, or the contributors? Should I be wary of contributing to a project that does not provide a Contribution Agreement? I have potential contributors who've never seen a Contribution Agreement before and are wary to sign one. I also want to contribute to som...