This blog post explores the concept of the “Truck Factor,” the minimum number of team members that can disappear before a project stalls. The author, along with , created a plugin to calculate this factor for GitHub projects, with surprising results. They attempted to reproduce the original research’s findings, encountering challenges with the data and instructions provided. Despite efforts to improve the Truck Factor calculation, the results for the Linux kernel repository actually worsened over time. The blog post concludes that Bus Factors have become even scarier in recent years. For more insights and visualizations, visit mclare’s blog.
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