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Out of curiosity, are there any notable examples of products/projects which have failed upon having their bus factor checked? Off the top of my head, I was thi
by incision 13y ago
Out of curiosity, are there any notable examples of products/projects which have failed upon having their bus factor checked?
Off the top of my head, I was thinking ReiserFS [0] which seemed lose ground quickly after Reiser's murder charge and subsequent conviction [1].
0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS
1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser#Trial_and_verdict http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser#Trial_and_verdict
- davidw 13y agoTcl seemed to have a lot of the wind taken out of its sails when Ousterhout moved on. The language was - and is - still developed by very competent people, but it seemed to suffer some from the lack of a visible leader.