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Would a bus factor of 0 not also be extremely bad, meaning that the project is in danger even if no one is actually killed by a bus and all developers are fine?
by schroeding 4y ago
Would a bus factor of 0 not also be extremely bad, meaning that the project is in danger even if no one is actually killed by a bus and all developers are fine? :D
- kdmccormick 4y agoOh you're right XD I think "bus factor of infinity" is what they're going for!
- Anunayj 4y agowell the project will stop dead right in tracks if a bus carrying the entire population of earth were to crash into a river, so I'd say the bus factor is very much finite.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoAgreed; I've been on projects that I would count as having a bus factor of 0, because all the people who knew how to do any number of critical functions had been laid off. This is an attempt to make everything so simple and well-documented that that could never happen because anytime somebody wants to work on it they can pick it up and immediately be able to do everything.
- OJFord 4y ago0 is often (ab?)used like this, e.g. 'never stop' where it ought (by some sort of logic) to mean 'stop immediately' or whatever other time or repetition based thing.