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Great idea, I also think it'd be interesting to systematically donate to the projects with the lowest bus factor (or as that one XKCD describes it: "the project

Great idea, I also think it'd be interesting to systematically donate to the projects with the lowest bus factor (or as that one XKCD describes it: "the project that a random person in Nebraska has been maintaining since 2005")

kvinogradov 2y ago
Yes, that would be a very useful risk metric! Assuming access only to public APIs (GitHub, package managers, etc.), how would you define the bus factor in terms of data? I am thinking about # unique contributors over the last X years. It's funny that the experiment uncovered exactly such a case: a person from Nebraska got my donation as the first income from his open source contributions over the last 18 years and shared this on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7269812667010236416?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A7269812667010236416%2C7270499886444216320%29&dashCommentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A%287270499886444216320%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7269812667010236416%29 https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7269812...