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Re: Git has a healthy truck factor..

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jul 14, 2015, 15:39 UTC
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<20150714153950.GA17709@peff.net>
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<2E436A2846834D6CBD77FBEAD1EFB43C@PhilipOakley>
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 12:05:58AM +0100, Philip Oakley wrote:
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> It looks like Git has a healthy truck factor of 8, as reported in
> https://mtov.github.io/Truck-Factor/, which has Git eighth in the list of
> projects it analyzed, with Linux at second place.
> 
> The analysis method paper is behind a pay wall, so I couldn't see how
> sensible the methodology, but it's nice to know Git's a broad team.

One thing I noticed is that Homebrew has an extremely high number. But I suspect this is because it has a very large number of somewhat silo'd files. That is, people work on package formulas for projects that interest them, but what you really care about for the health of the project is who is working on the base system. Maybe those formula authors could step up, or maybe not, but I'm not sure that is reflected in this analysis.

-Peff
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