> But what do you propose we do if a developer gets sick or has to travel? I don't know what that means. Those both seem like silly reasons to add more devs t

> But what do you propose we do if a developer gets sick or has to travel? I don't know what that means. Those both seem like silly reasons to add more devs to a project. Unless you're talking about long term sickness (like cancer) or travelling around the world for a few months, but that's not really the expected usages of those phrases.