Building a plan
Succession planning is something you see many organizations spend considerable time developing, especially large and long-running ones. These organizations build succession plans because they have people that depend on the organization in one way or another; they might be employees, customers, and/or investors who have a vested interest in an organization continuing to operate successfully over time.
Open source projects similarly dependent on a large user community must also consider succession planning. Succession planning is not a single process, but it involves a few different pieces and can take some time to complete fully. But before you can start bringing in a new leader, you need to ensure the project’s operations are well documented. Let’s look at how to do that now.
Documenting your project’s operation
In Chapter 5, Governance and Hosting Models, we talked about the importance of writing down your governance, not only for everyone...
