Just knowing that people will be looking at it makes you work all that harder to make it good.
If you haven't seen this all in action before, here's some examples from Randy's (
Randy apologizes for lack of docs:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/brad/2157703.html?thread=10905991#t10905991
plix points out problems and links for background information and fixes:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/brad/2158332.html?thread=10912252#t10912252
Randy clarifies what I should've done, apologizing again for lack of docs:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/brad/2158332.html?thread=10914812#t10914812
And traditional open source byproducts....
Share it! (from two people)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/brad/2157703.html?thread=10907783#t10907783
http://www.livejournal.com/users/brad/2158332.html?thread=10913532#t10913532
This helps me:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/brad/2157703.html?thread=10909575#t10909575
Have you seen this? (good links)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/brad/2157703.html?thread=10909831#t10909831
<3 open source. (but note that we didn't GPL it, so we're not total hippies or anything....)