I maintain a LGPL library for rapid development of large scale .NET applications

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I maintain a LGPL library for rapid development of large scale .NET applications, It's a general purpose class library containing functionalities that are used at the DAL and BLL level.

So, in practice, it's a library focused towards server-side/middle-tier developers - it doesn't have any shiny or trendy stuff and as such I don't expect it to ever become majorly popular.

However, I would really like to expand the library and get more ideas for possibly useful functionalities to add.

Larger, more user oriented libraries have a ton of users and a ton of ideas.

How do I get more people to contribute ideas for my more niche library?

Explanation / Answer

If you can't bring yourself to promote your project when someone specifically asks you to, that's half your answer right there.

The other half is that ideas are grown in a fertile community, not a sterile one. What tools do your users have to communicate and collaborate? Do you have an issue tracker? A mailing list? Users aren't going to go out of their way to contribute. You have to make it easy.

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