Can you start an original, open source, project without writing a line of code?
there: i see this quite often and it's usually a good indicator that the project is going to go nowhere.non-developers post on a users mailing list about an idea, some other non-developer joins in with "hey i'll setup a wiki!" and someone else chimes in with "i'll make a logo and a website!"  in the end you have all this planning and meta-development for nothing, and no code ever gets written.look on sourceforge and see how many projects are in pre-alpha/planning stages with no code uploaded and how long they've been there.a common phrase in the openbsd developer community is "shut up and hack."  a developer's time is much better spent writing code and showing it to someone than writing up a technical spec about how something should quite possibly maybe some day be if we're lucky and follow the roadmap exactly.