Growing A Successful and Sustainable Project
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Argues that sustainable open source needs explicit choices: pick a license and CLA policy, decide hosting (Apache, Linux Foundation, Conservancy) and use available services like the Core Infrastructure Initiative for security; plan marketing because there are 72 million GitHub repos and projects must stand out; document onboarding and succession because 75% of projects have one or fewer maintainers; design governance and phases (launch, commercialization, sustain, sunset) up front so code, reliability and community scale rather than rely on “organic” growth.
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