explain how projects actually run on a day-to-day basis, and say
nothing about how conflicts are resolved.</p><p>This chapter tries to show the structural underpinnings
successful projects have in common.  I mean "successful" not just in
terms of technical quality, but also operational health and
survivability.  Operational health is the project's ongoing ability to
incorporate new code contributions and new developers, and to be
responsive to incoming bug reports.  Survivability is the project's
ability to