Ask HN: Attributes of a successful Open Source project?

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12 years ago

I have a small Open Source project https://github.com/Sean-Der/fail2web and would love to see it succeed. For me that means the code is clean, users are not frustrated and contributors can easily improve it.

What are some things that you like to see in an Open Source either as user or contributor? On that same note what are the things that instantly make you avoid a project? I have also thought about

* A official IRC channel on Freenode, for support and people can ask me questions directly.

* Buy a domain and give some basic documentation and images (gh-pages)

* A public mailing list so I can have release announcements

I am getting to the point where the code is mature enough for me, so I want to assure that the project doesn't stagnate. Perhaps I am trying to artificially give the project more life than it warrants?

thanks

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