Managing changes in leadership, manage project forks, sunsetting projects

Questions:

• Do I want my project to continue even in case I have to step away from it?
• How should the new leadership role in our project be determined?
• What happens if a number of contributors want to start a fork of the project?
• Should projects be abandoned? If so, how?

Objectives:

• Know the ‘bus factor’ of your project, and consider its resilience
• Develop strategies to make leadership changes transparent
• Understand potential reasons for forks
• Consider the end-of-life for your project

Project leadership

• Spend a bit of time thinking about the long-term
• Have a backup plan

Adding maintainers

• Know that things are changing when you grow the maintainer base

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