From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: Git has a healthy truck factor.. Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 08:39:50 -0700 Message-ID: <20150714153950.GA17709@peff.net> References: <2E436A2846834D6CBD77FBEAD1EFB43C@PhilipOakley> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Git List To: Philip Oakley X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 14 17:40:01 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZF2JM-0005ms-IY for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2015 17:40:00 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752978AbbGNPj4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jul 2015 11:39:56 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([50.56.180.127]:59642 "HELO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751298AbbGNPjy (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jul 2015 11:39:54 -0400 Received: (qmail 4833 invoked by uid 102); 14 Jul 2015 15:39:54 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.1) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with SMTP; Tue, 14 Jul 2015 10:39:54 -0500 Received: (qmail 10128 invoked by uid 107); 14 Jul 2015 15:39:54 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with SMTP; Tue, 14 Jul 2015 11:39:54 -0400 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 14 Jul 2015 08:39:50 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2E436A2846834D6CBD77FBEAD1EFB43C@PhilipOakley> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 12:05:58AM +0100, Philip Oakley wrote: > It looks like Git has a healthy truck factor of 8, as reported in > https://mtov.github.io/Truck-Factor/, which has Git eighth in the list of > projects it analyzed, with Linux at second place. > > The analysis method paper is behind a pay wall, so I couldn't see how > sensible the methodology, but it's nice to know Git's a broad team. One thing I noticed is that Homebrew has an extremely high number. But I suspect this is because it has a very large number of somewhat silo'd files. That is, people work on package formulas for projects that interest them, but what you really care about for the health of the project is who is working on the base system. Maybe those formula authors could step up, or maybe not, but I'm not sure that is reflected in this analysis. -Peff