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There's a fair few FOSS projects that have a bus factor of 1 or 2, it's one of the things I check these days before considering adoption. That said, having mul
by EdwardDiego 3y ago
There's a fair few FOSS projects that have a bus factor of 1 or 2, it's one of the things I check these days before considering adoption.
That said, having multiple core contributors isn't always a guarantee either if they're from the same company, that's another bus factor of 1, especially if the company's core business isn't selling software to others, they'll usually end up neglected or abandoned.
Great examples are Robinhood's Faust library, and Shopify's stewardship (or lack thereof) of Sarama. Not their core business, so eventually, the devs get moved on to stuff that makes money directly.
- The_Colonel 3y agoMaybe I phrased it the wrong way. What attracts me to open source isn't a higher number of contributors / bus factor, but the fact that if the project dies for whatever reason, I, and perhaps some other desperate users, can fork it, port it to newer platforms, fix the gravest bugs etc. If worse comes to worst, I'm not completely locked out. Meanwhile with closed source software, I'm completely realint on the software producer.