Martijn Pieters wrote: > On Jan 5, 2012, at 19:38 , M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> What is a "bus factor" ? > > From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor: > > In software development, a software project's bus factor is a measurement of > the concentration of information in individual team members. The bus factor > is the total number of key developers who would need to be incapacitated (as > by getting hit by a bus) to send the project into such disarray that it would > not be able to proceed; the project would retain information (such as source > code) with which no remaining team member is familiar. A high bus factor > means that many developers would need to be removed before the project would > necessarily fail.
Thanks for the explanation. Regarding the context we're discussing here: I'm not really sure why a higher "bus factor" can be used to warrant unnecessary complication. If that were so, Python would by now resemble APL ;-) If Anatoly can come up with a working configuration that doesn't require sub domain management, more virtual servers or moving to nginx in order to support more than one wiki, I'd be +0 on the change. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jan 06 2012) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www
