Article 29CH8 [$] Designing for failure

[$] Designing for failure

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Nobody starts a free-software project hoping that it will fail, so it is arare project indeed that plans for its eventual demise. But not allprojects succeed, and a project that doesn't plan for failure risks is doingits users harm. Dan Callahan joined Mozilla to work on the Personaauthentication project, and he was there for its recent shutdown. At the 2017linux.conf.au in Hobart, Tasmania, he used his keynote slot to talk aboutthe lessons that have been learned about designing a project for failure.
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