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 *Clojure* and obtained a value of *2*. The developers responsible for this TF are: Rich Hickey - author of 58% of the files Stuart Halloway - author of 27% of the files To validate our results, we would like to ask *Clojure* developers the following three brief questions: (a) Do you agree that the listed developers are the main developers of *Clojure*? (b) Do you agree that *Clojure* 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 *Clojure* 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/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
