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Some are pedestrian.\n- The easier features are all complete. \n- The codebase is complex. \n- There are a lot of technologies that work together, such as C and javascript, that are not usually skills that are found in one programmer. In fact, many features were only implemented by having two people on our team work together.\n\nAnother is, we are a very small company with a very large (for us) investment in Envelope, the platform that Postage is built on. As such, we need to keep our options open. One way to do that would be to have outside contributors sign a waver basically giving up their rights to their contributions. I can imagine most people would find that unacceptable. How do we protect our future while giving contributors the proper expectations (whatever those might be)?\n\nI think these realities make the barrier to entry pretty high. I'm not looking forward to figuring all of this out.\n\nA friend of Postage mentioned that we could do a couple things to encourage patches from the community. One was to move the repo to postage/postage from workflowproducts/postage. Unfortunately, Postage as an organization is taken, but even if we chose an unoccupied organization name, many users bookmarks and clone sources would break if we changed organizations.\n\nWe actually did this once already and because it was poorly handled we lost all our stars and watches. \n\nAnyway, until we have some outside contributors I don't see a reason to put people through that. And then, if we do get some contributors, we'll likely have many more users. Why break all those links?\n\nIf the community has an opinion on this please let us know by posting here. We don't really know what to do so we'll probably just do what you want.\n"}}
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