> I don't know how these guys manage to succeed where almost all other projects fail, [...].
They have a proprietary (not open source) test suite with 100% branch coverage. That makes it impossible to have credible forks of SQLite3. And it makes the gatekeepers valuable because SQLite3 is the most widely used piece of software ever built. So there's a SQLite Consortium, and all the big tech players that depend on SQLite3 are members, and that's how the SQLite team pays the bills.
They have a proprietary (not open source) test suite with 100% branch coverage. That makes it impossible to have credible forks of SQLite3. And it makes the gatekeepers valuable because SQLite3 is the most widely used piece of software ever built. So there's a SQLite Consortium, and all the big tech players that depend on SQLite3 are members, and that's how the SQLite team pays the bills.