This is a sobering post that revisits the notion that given a project, how many developers have to be hit by a bus before it stalls.
According to the methodology explained in the article, in 2015 it took 57 developers for the Linux kernel to fail, now it appears that it takes 8.
That’s not good.
the years as a system admin taught me that you can identify the influential contributors because they were the only people whose accounts were not immediately shut off when the management identified a bus factor.
and now i have a name for the phenomena; thank you.