Why only a handful of projects attract attention of developers/volunteers?
Moshe Bar and Karl Fogel in their book Source Development with CVS points that In a system that relies largely on volunteer energy, convenience is not a mere luxury—it is often the factor that determines whether people will contribute to your project or turn their attention to something with fewer obstacles to participation. Projects are competing for volunteer attention on their merits, and those merits include not only the quality of the software itself, but also potential developers’ ease of access to the source and the readiness of the maintainers to accept good contributions.
Point taken.
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