Keynote: Surviving Open Source
summary
Eclipse Collections begins as a 2004 internal library, opens as GS Collections in 2012 and moves to the Eclipse Foundation in 2015; the codebase is ~1M LOC with 160k+ tests, grows from ~20k to ~220k downloads/month, and expands to about 6 committers and ~100 contributors. A performance bug found in 2013 leads to four years of benchmarking and discussion and results in RandomAccessSpliterator landing in OpenJDK (~2017). Maintenance now emphasizes community onboarding, katas, code reviews and deliberate handoffs so the project survives without its originator.
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