When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.

— Eric S. Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1997)

Source: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s02.html

From 'The Mail Must Get Through' in The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1997).

Topics: software engineering, open source