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What's bus factor?

• jms18 12y ago
  If the author got hit by a bus, there's no one else around to maintain it. Generally refers to "how many people can continue to develop/support this software if original maintainer (and close co-developers) get hit by a bus."
• dragonwriter 12y ago
  > What's bus factor? The number of developers that can be suddenly and totally lost from a project (e.g., by being hit by a bus) without the project itself becoming unable to proceed effectively.