As part of my PhD research on code authorship, we calculated the Truck Factor (TF) of some popular GitHub repositories.
As you probably know, the Truck (or Bus) Factor designates the minimal number of developers that have to be hit by a truck (or quit) before a project is incapacitated. In our work, we consider that a system is in trouble if more than 50% of its files become orphan (i.e., without a main author).
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As part of my PhD research on code authorship, we calculated the Truck Factor (TF) of some popular GitHub repositories.
As you probably know, the Truck (or Bus) Factor designates the minimal number of developers that have to be hit by a truck (or quit) before a project is incapacitated. In our work, we consider that a system is in trouble if more than 50% of its files become orphan (i.e., without a main author).
More details on our work in this preprint: https://peerj.com/preprints/1233
We calculated the TF for TEST-1 and obtained a value of 1.
The developer responsible for this TF is:
xxxx - author of xx% of the files
To validate our results, we would like to ask TEST-1 developers the following three brief questions:
(a) Do you agree that the listed developer is the main developer of TEST-1?
(b) Do you agree that TEST-1 will be in trouble if the listed developer leave the project (e.g., if he wins in the lottery, to be less morbid)?
(b) Does TEST-1 have some characteristics that would attenuate the loss of the listed developer (e.g., detailed documentation)?
Thanks in advance for your collaboration,
Guilherme Avelino PhD Student Applied Software Engineering Group (ASERG) UFMG, Brazil http://aserg.labsoft.dcc.ufmg.br/