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Jim Hall: Transitions in an open source software project

“Yet in February 2009, I decided to leave FreeDOS. This was not
an easy decision. After 15 years, FreeDOS was a large part of my
life, and I had invested a lot of my time and energy to the
project. However, I had applied for a Master’s degree program, and
realized my studies on top of home life and work commitments would
leave little (or no) time for FreeDOS.

“In part 3 of this series of blog posts, I discussed how the
maintainer can help a project thrive. The maintainer plays an
important role in an open source software project. For the FreeDOS
Project to to survive, I needed to transfer my role to someone
else.

“So the question is, How to transition these responsibilities to
someone else?”


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