Building a successful open-source project is no easy feat—it requires more than just technical excellence.
As the Program Manager for Eclipse Adoptium, I’ve encountered the ups and downs of fostering a thriving open-source ecosystem.
In this talk, I’ll share the dos and don’ts of community management based on real-world lessons from Adoptium’s journey. We’ll discuss the challenges of keeping a community-engaged, balancing the need for rapid innovation with quality control, and managing the inevitable growing pains of scaling a project. You’ll learn how to navigate common pitfalls and leverage best practices to ensure your project remains healthy and sustainable. Through examples such as our AQAVit initiative, which balances quality with performance, and strategies for secure, reproducible binaries, I’ll show how community-driven collaboration can lead to better outcomes—when done right.
This talk is for project leads and communities managers looking for practical, actionable insights on what it really takes to build and sustain a successful open-source project.