🧑‍🏫Open-Source strategies - Users

An open-source strategy that is based on project's target audience's priorities is important. A community of users might be interested in using a particular software but not interested in getting it in source and building it themselves and deploying it for use. In such cases if the strategy mandates creating source-code repositories on GitHub and letting the user-base know about the release tags and expecting them to build and run, is bound to fail.

Even though the source is out there, if community is not consuming it in form it is published the strategy did not work.

A simple tweak is to add a step to release process where the software is built and tested upon release and resulting artifacts targeting various platforms are published as well.