Bus factor
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In software development, a software project's bus factor is an irreverent measurement of concentration of information in a single person, or very few people. The bus factor is the total number of key developers who would need to be incapacitated, as by getting hit by a bus, to send the project into such disarray that it would not be able to proceed.[1]
Getting hit by a bus could take many different forms. This could be a person taking a new job, having a baby, changing their lifestyle or life status: the impact would have the same effect.
Commentators have noted that the Linux kernel's bus factor may be as low as one: the project's founder and chief architect, Linus Torvalds.[1]
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- Poisonous People, a talk that includes (among other topics) discussion of bus factor and how to increase it
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