Posted by forngren on May 1, 2007 at 10:49am
The über-evil Steven Wittens wrote this great piece of information/inspiration.
While that's often an easy, karma-scoring move, it can have some unintended, annoying consequences. For example, people might start sending in bug reports for your code or may offer suggestions on how to improve it. Even worse, meddling know-it-alls may even offer to 'help' with development and do things with it that you never intended. Some projects, like Drupal, even trick you into such forced participation, by automatically supplying issue trackers, RSS feeds, revision control and other, undesirable community interaction.
Read it all here: http://acko.net/blog/ensuring-your-contributed-code-gathers-dust