Summary

This chapter focused on how to handle growth in an open source project, both in the realm of setting good metrics to measure growth and also ensuring the project leadership can scale alongside this growth. Too often, projects that could become great projects are crushed under their own weight, and staying ahead of that ensures a project can become sustainable for the long term.

When a project is viewed as sustainable, organizations look to invest and adopt it for their own internal use as well as build it into their own products. Commercialization might be viewed as an anti-pattern to open source, but in reality, it’s a validation that the project has value. In the next chapter, we will look at how projects can best manage commercialization.