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A comment on Gitlab's Journey from Azure to GCP. Parent comment

Re:Gitlab's Journey from Azure to GCP by jrochkind1 on Thursday May 02, 2019 @10:58PM (#19815138)
Do you have examples of open source software in a similar situation (one company providing coordination and final approval in the previous project; similar complexity level to Gitlab, whatever that is), where that happened successfully?

I'm not challenging necessarily, I legitimately am interested in examples.

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Re:Gitlab's Journey from Azure to GCP by daxelrod on Thursday May 02, 2019 @11:55PM (#19815380)
It depends on your definition of “kill”.

OpenSolaris -> Illumos

Hudson -> Jenkins

OpenOffice -> LibreOffice

MySQL -> MariaDB (not killed, but forked out of fear it would be)

And a non-Oracle example:

Node.js -> IO.js (arguable - forked because Node dev was stagnant, eventually merged)

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Re:Gitlab's Journey from Azure to GCP by oblio on Friday May 03, 2019 @09:54AM (#19818433)
All those had communities outside the main company long before they "moved out". What's the percentage of external contributors to GitLab? 1%?
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Re:Gitlab's Journey from Azure to GCP by tinco on Friday May 03, 2019 @05:26AM (#19816810)
Hmm what about the Blender project, would that one count?

I admit it's difficult to come up with examples, though I don't know of any failures either. RethinkDB has been sort of a failure, but it was never very popular to begin with.

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