10. Sunset & Legacy

A practical guide to helping users move off a retired Open Source project with clear options, data steps, risks, and respectful support boundaries.

A practical guide to security expectations after an Open Source project ends, so users know what is safe, risky, and no longer supported.

A practical handoff plan for ending your maintainer role while protecting users, contributors, access, security, and project continuity.

A practical way to close or freeze issues when an Open Source project ends, while preserving bugs, workarounds, and user trust.

A practical shutdown plan for hosted Open Source services: protect users, preserve the code, and reduce harm when the service must end.

A practical guide to leaving behind docs, exports, releases, and handoff notes so your Open Source project can keep helping people.