Hi, On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Guilherme Avelino <gavel...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 scikit-learn and obtained a value of 7. > > The developers responsible for this TF are: > > Fabian Pedregosa - author of 22% of the files > Gael varoquaux - author of 13% of the files > Andreas Mueller - author of 12% of the files > Olivier Grisel - author of 10% of the files > Lars Buitinck - author of 10% of the files > Jake Vanderplas - author of 6% of the files > Vlad Niculae - author of 5% of the files > > To validate our results, we would like to ask scikit-learn developers the > following three brief questions: > > (a) Do you agree that the listed developers are the main developers of > scikit-learn? > > (b) Do you agree that scikit-learn will be in trouble if the listed > developers leave the project (e.g., if they win in the lottery, to be less > morbid)?
Wouldn't winning the lottery mean the developers would have _more_ time to devote to scikit-learn ? :) Matthew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Scikit-learn-general mailing list Scikit-learn-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general
