Bus factor

In software development, a 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 if incapacitated, as by getting hit by a bus, 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^[who?!] have noted that the Linux kernel’s bus factor may be as low as one: the project’s founder and chief architect, Linus Torvalds. (oh my Wikipedia)

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