In a programming sense, I have never made anything but minor contributions to open source projects. As I have recently described, I use open source software all the time. The only major exception is at work on the corporate workstation on my desktop.
Large projects sometimes go off the rails and fail. Frequently they are forked, where a group of people take the code base off in a different direction, and the new project and old project live or die on their own merits.
At the moment this sort of thing is on my mind because of this blog posting from the author of the "Sigil" project which provides interesting insight into the dynamics of open source software projects from an inside perspective: Sigil Blog
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