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

Lesson 7

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In FOSS, there is no such thing as autopilot

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Intent is critical

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If you are not planning to succeed, you are planning to
fail

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Great software is not enough; you can have the best
technical solution, but if a “big dog” starts throwing its
weight around, you need to be able to respond

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If you're not looking at your whole ecosystem, you are
inviting failure