{"thread":{"id":"39844","subject":"Git has a healthy truck factor..","startedAt":"2015-07-13T23:05:58Z","lastAt":"2015-07-28T21:11:01Z","messageCount":3,"participants":["Philip Oakley","Jeff King","Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"266100","messageId":"2E436A2846834D6CBD77FBEAD1EFB43C@PhilipOakley","threadId":"39844","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Git has a healthy truck factor..","fromName":"Philip Oakley","fromEmail":"philipoakley@iee.org","sentAt":"2015-07-13T23:05:58Z","receivedAt":"2015-07-13T23:05:58Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"philipoakley@iee.email","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/914343?v=4"},"body":"It looks like Git has a healthy truck factor of 8, as reported in \nhttps://mtov.github.io/Truck-Factor/, which has Git eighth in the list \nof projects it analyzed, with Linux at second place.\n\nThe analysis method paper is behind a pay wall, so I couldn't see how \nsensible the methodology, but it's nice to know Git's a broad team.\n\nKeep safe everyone.\n--\nPhilip\n"},{"id":"266129","messageId":"20150714153950.GA17709@peff.net","threadId":"39844","inReplyTo":"2E436A2846834D6CBD77FBEAD1EFB43C@PhilipOakley","subject":"Re: Git has a healthy truck factor..","fromName":"Jeff King","fromEmail":"peff@peff.net","sentAt":"2015-07-14T15:39:50Z","receivedAt":"2015-07-14T15:39:50Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"peff@peff.net","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/45925?v=4"},"body":"On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 12:05:58AM +0100, Philip Oakley wrote:\n\n> It looks like Git has a healthy truck factor of 8, as reported in\n> https://mtov.github.io/Truck-Factor/, which has Git eighth in the list of\n> projects it analyzed, with Linux at second place.\n> \n> The analysis method paper is behind a pay wall, so I couldn't see how\n> sensible the methodology, but it's nice to know Git's a broad team.\n\nOne thing I noticed is that Homebrew has an extremely high number. But I\nsuspect this is because it has a very large number of somewhat silo'd\nfiles. That is, people work on package formulas for projects that\ninterest them, but what you really care about for the health of the\nproject is who is working on the base system. Maybe those formula\nauthors could step up, or maybe not, but I'm not sure that is reflected\nin this analysis.\n\n-Peff\n"},{"id":"267002","messageId":"xmqqk2tkc7iy.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com","threadId":"39844","inReplyTo":"20150714153950.GA17709@peff.net","subject":"Re: Git has a healthy truck factor..","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2015-07-28T21:11:01Z","receivedAt":"2015-07-28T21:11:01Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:\n\n> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 12:05:58AM +0100, Philip Oakley wrote:\n>\n>> It looks like Git has a healthy truck factor of 8, as reported in\n>> https://mtov.github.io/Truck-Factor/, which has Git eighth in the list of\n>> projects it analyzed, with Linux at second place.\n>> \n>> The analysis method paper is behind a pay wall, so I couldn't see how\n>> sensible the methodology, but it's nice to know Git's a broad team.\n>\n> One thing I noticed is that Homebrew has an extremely high number. But I\n> suspect this is because it has a very large number of somewhat silo'd\n> files. That is, people work on package formulas for projects that\n> interest them, but what you really care about for the health of the\n> project is who is working on the base system. Maybe those formula\n> authors could step up, or maybe not, but I'm not sure that is reflected\n> in this analysis.\n\nWe can actually say the same thing for us.  We do have a high number\nof people who are competent, but I wish I can really say that I can\nreadily name 8 people who can act as an interim maintainer when I\ndisappear for a few weeks from the list.  I unfortunately can't.\n\nOh that reminds me.  I plan to do that disappearing thing this year,\naround mid-November for a few weeks.  You, Shawn, and Jonathan have\ntook turns playing interim maintainers in the past years to help me.\nAs we do not see much of the latter two these days, I am wondering\nperhaps it may be better to ask somebody new this year, which would\nhopefully bring the actual number closer to that mythical 8 ;-).\n"}]}