On the topic of DSB, it's not that DSB is overtly a "single author" project by choice. Indeed, I would like to think of DSB as a "place where you can realize your ideas" as well. The community coding, feedback, testing, and debugging that has happened has been quite valuable, and DSB is a much better project because of it. However, people are only going to contribute what they can and want to, and nothing more; I still ended up doing most of the dirty work myself. Don't get me wrong, I'm not bitter or resentful about it, but I'm just stating the fact. I would have loved to have more community involvement in actual DSB development particularly in the task of creating an editor. Like I said, I'm not angry that most of that didn't materialize, but the fact is, it didn't. There were a few abortive efforts along the line, and they were intriguing in their own right, but when all was said and done, I had to sit down and make a DSB editor myself. And I did. Perhaps the presence of an editor will inspire someone to come up with their own next big idea, or perhaps I'll have to make the next big thing myself. I'm ok with it either way.
You'll probably find a similar experience. In the end, most of these small projects need a single main author, a sort of "benevolent dictator" overseeing the project, to provide a backbone and a vision. Occasionally, people will come along and throw little bits here and there into the cart, but you'll still have to be the one pushing the cart. Best of luck with your project.
