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Django social authentication made simple
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Django Social Auth Truck Factor #831

Closed gavelino closed 7 years ago

gavelino commented 9 years ago

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 Django Social Auth and obtained a value of 2.

The developers responsible for this TF are:

Matías Aguirre - author of 91% of the files Stas Kravets - author of 15% of the files

To validate our results, we would like to ask Django Social Auth developers the following three brief questions:

(a) Do you agree that the listed developers are the main developers of Django Social Auth?

(b) Do you agree that Django Social Auth will be in trouble if the listed developers leave the project (e.g., if they win in the lottery, to be less morbid)?

(c) Does Django Social Auth have some characteristics that would attenuate the loss of the listed developers (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/

fuzzy76 commented 8 years ago

I guess the fact that this project haven't seen a single commit since you asked your question answers it. :)