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

How Did This Happen? (continued)

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The project forgot the importance of working with
its ecosystem

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Upstream projects (Linux, QEMU) were branched rather
than engaged with patches

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The project decided that others in the ecosystem (i.e., the
distributions) would have to carry the burden of
maintaining and supporting those differences

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This went on too long, and the ecosystem got fed up