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in the past i have used a ton of open source projects and defiantly have done my best to contribute back to the projects. i want to start my own. im going to be creating a game site CMS based on CodeIgniter so it will be lightweight, intuitive and easy to add plugins to.

So what should be the first step in this? Actually creating the base of the CMS and then creating google group/sourceforge page? Should i keep it underwraps until i get a working version out the door? How to i allow others to modify and commit code? do i only allow a select group of devs in or if i allow the public to submit code what is the best way of going about that?

If it’s based on CI i think it will have to be more than a collection of classes you added to the libraries file. I think you can take EE as an example. It doesn’t need to be a widespread as EE but it has to have its own face. If you can accomplish that you have a good start of an open source project.

For the question of development team do like the others, assign a few people that can work on the code and let the community provide suggestions and bug reports.