We had a similar issue with the Korora Project. Founder stepped down to focus on life for a bit, main developer went AWOL. Between the two, all build server access was cut off to the remaining members.
Unfortunately, this is really one of the only ways to test how "open" your code is. You can have the entire source up on GitHub, but if the stack depends connecting to a blackbox server which you don't control, the whole thing quickly falls apart.
Redundancy and documentation are absolutely key for any kind of project, particularly open source.
Sharing the power is also really important. I founded the project PhpWiki back in 1999, and eventually saw the need to grant admin access to other developers. I haven't done any development on the project in about fifteen years but it's still going.
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We had a similar issue with the Korora Project. Founder stepped down to focus on life for a bit, main developer went AWOL. Between the two, all build server access was cut off to the remaining members.
Unfortunately, this is really one of the only ways to test how "open" your code is. You can have the entire source up on GitHub, but if the stack depends connecting to a blackbox server which you don't control, the whole thing quickly falls apart.
Redundancy and documentation are absolutely key for any kind of project, particularly open source.
Sharing the power is also really important. I founded the project PhpWiki back in 1999, and eventually saw the need to grant admin access to other developers. I haven't done any development on the project in about fifteen years but it's still going.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpwiki/