On 01/09/2013 08:56 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > It's the new year, and in light of the recent poll about which devs are > working on what, let me make another, albeit vaguely macabre, suggestion: > > If you're a developer, or other staffer, can the people around you pick > up the pieces if you get hit by a bus? How badly will it impact delivery > and delivery scheduling of what you're working on?
This is a good reminder of yet another reason to document things. > Is the institutional knowledge about our architecture and plans sufficiently > well documented and spread out that we don't have anyone with an unreasonably > high bus factor? However, high bus factor is good. As Wikipedia states, "The bus factor is the total number of key developers who would need to be incapacitated (as by getting hit by a bus/truck) to send the project into such disarray that it would not be able to proceed". The higher this is, the less likely the project actually would be derailed for such a reason. Matt Flaschen _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
