Designing for failure
Designing for failure
[Front] Posted Jan 18, 2017 21:06 UTC (Wed) by corbet
Nobody starts a free-software project hoping that it will fail, so it is a rare project indeed that plans for its eventual demise. But not all projects succeed, and a project that doesn't plan for failure risks is doing its users harm. Dan Callahan joined Mozilla to work on the Persona authentication project, and he was there for its recent shutdown. At the 2017 linux.conf.au in Hobart, Tasmania, he used his keynote slot to talk about the lessons that have been learned about designing a project for failure.