Ruby on Rails

Many thanks. Really appreciate that.

I was thinking of a blended model where I continue to engage my RoR developer who can push changes, check things. We could focus on immediate, critical tasks and the community of volunteers could contribute on tasks that are important (new features, code checking) but not immediate. As the community completes these things we could check and push live. 

Maybe in time, such a person comes from the volunteer community. It could also be I raise funds for such a person since I am constantly raising funds from public sector (just not the kind of funds a start up would have) 

Many thanks for the very useful insights 

d

On Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 10:39:15 AM UTC+1, Rob Jonson wrote:

Hi David,

re open sourcing the project. One thing you'll need to figure out is how you handle incoming pull requests and who has authority to apply changes.

You won't want to just let anybody make changes - so that means you'll need to find a trusted person who can invest a fairly significant chunk of time in reviewing and accepting/declining input.

That person (or people) need to have a good overall understanding of the whole project codebase.

It takes a fairly significant investment to do this properly as if done half-heartedly then other developers who want to contribute will quickly get put off.

(There is nothing worse than doing a bunch of work for free for a project only to have that work sit un-used for weeks or months)

there could be a massive return for you if you get this to work properly - but it will take time, effort and probably money to get it going.

cheers,

Rob