How to (Almost) Kill a Successful Project and Bring It Back to Life Again: Lessons Learned from the Xen Project (37 pages)
lesson 3

Lesson 3
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Never ignore your project's Open Source root
structure
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Cut flowers are beautiful – until they die
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Living plants need their roots
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FOSS community is the root structure, and it must spread
wide
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The project team cannot stand alone
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Pay attention to your partners in FOSS: libraries,
kernel, packaging