[$] Designing for failure
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.